Abuse Quotes
1213 quotes by 943 authors
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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own…
— Herbert Marcuse
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Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to…
— Garry Kasparov
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Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
— Emile M. Cioran
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What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
— Emile M. Cioran
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My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's…
— Jefferson Davis
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The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal…
— Jefferson Davis
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When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for…
— Oscar Romero
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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
— Willie Stargell
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Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused,…
— Heather Mills
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In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.
— Louis IX of France
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Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each…
— Dalai Lama
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We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich…
— Poul Hartling
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Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's…
— David Robertson
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I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my…
— Tupac Shakur
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of…
— Mel White
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is…
— Joan D. Chittister
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