Abuse Quotes
1213 quotes by 903 authors
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We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats,…
— River Phoenix
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I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do…
— Jeff Beck
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Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not…
— John Wayne
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Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,
— Ron Paul
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You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.
— Mariska Hargitay
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We're talking a lot about bullying and harassment and abuse tonight, and I can freely say that at some point in the future I want…
— Rex Lee
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I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?
— Emmanuel Lubezki
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Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.
— Elvis Presley
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There was mental and physical abuse in my family.
— Erin Moran
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I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
— Daniel Baldwin
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Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her…
— Laura Davies
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I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black…
— Jackie Robinson
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Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people…
— Arundhati Roy
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a…
— George Washington
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It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and…
— James Madison
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The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be…
— James Madison
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So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations…
— Richard Henry Lee
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