Abused Quotes

342 quotes by 276 authors

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are… — Jean Baudrillard
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. — H.G. Wells
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come… — Helen Prejean
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love… — Dianne Feinstein
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order. — James A. Baldwin
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of… — William J. Clinton
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then… — Martin Luther
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon… — Mark Twain
Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should… — Tim Field
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the… — William J. Clinton
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to… — William J. Clinton
But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her. — William Shakespeare
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as… — Henry James Sumner Maine
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which… — John Calvin
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant. — Bill Phillips
No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead can serve as… — Richard Farson
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us… — Samuel Johnson

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