Abuse Quotes

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Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about… — Densey Clyne
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our… — Paul Keating
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of… — Noah Webster
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. — Thomas Jefferson
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to… — Aberjhani
The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be… — Oliver Ellsworth
During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its… — Thomas Jefferson
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for… — Davey Havok
I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra,… — Ava Gardner
Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse… — Eugene Mirman
I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you`re young. It`s a God-given gift. You… — Charlotte Rampling
I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power — Terrence Howard
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the… — Anne Heche
I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot… — Christina Aguilera
In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also… — Amy Poehler
In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said,… — Amy Poehler

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