Abused Quotes
342 quotes by 266 authors
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The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there…
— Lucinda Creighton
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The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
— Satish Kumar
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There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined,…
— Di Morrissey
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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
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
— Alexander Pope
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But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the…
— James Madison
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If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American people, has violated…
— Rocky Anderson
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I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly…
— Harry Belafonte
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Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used his free will and abused…
— Stephen Colbert
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I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement…
— Scott Bakula
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Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to…
— Robert Wagner
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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
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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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Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.
— Gyles Brandreth
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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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