Abuses Quotes

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War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion… — Queen Noor of Jordan
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. — Andrew Jackson
We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children… — Shakira
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications… — Noah Webster
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be… — Charles Caleb Colton
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating… — William O. Douglas
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… — Thomas Jefferson
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
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick
What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of… — Huw Irranca-Davies
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes… — M. Russell Ballard
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because… — Pope John Paul II
The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses. — James Madison
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 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
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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