Best Abuse Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.”

Should Looks Action Film Abuse Victim Action Films

Author:Maggie Q

“I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.”

Thinking World Trying Children Remember Wonder Abuse Child Abuse Sexually Abused Children

Author:Robin Quivers

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.”

Kind Government Jobs Boys Practice Democracy Connections Abuse Access Dictator Privileged Good Job Abuse Of Power Corridors Family Connections

Author:Jimmy Reid

“Pity is a benign form of abuse.”

Form Abuse Pity Benign

Author:Michael J. Fox

“It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.”

Seems Running Mother Order Bits Mercy Abuse Blame Addiction Granted Dry Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Mother Nature Burning Fossil Fuels Mercy And Forgiveness

Author:Gloria Reuben

“I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.”

Thinking Knows Problem Stones Abuse Contact Substance Substance Abuse

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.”

Life Is Purpose Views Gains Abuse Slave This Life Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.”

Humans Earth Humanity Human Beings Buddhism Civilization Abuse Endure Twilight Abuse Of Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.”

Way Should Fighting Plans Return Abuse Iraq Als Bin Laden Al Qaeda Osama Bin Laden Lieutenants

Author:John Yoo

“We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.”

Want Children States Whole Leader Areas Abuse Treatment Child Abuse Prevention Penn State

Author:Rodney Erickson

“Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."”

Ifs Men Said Wisdom Happens Courses Accepting Pieces He Man One Day Offers Paper Abuse Refuse Village Squares Stay With Me

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.”

People World Way Meditation Buddhism Sick Abuse Tired

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”

Water Pure Abuse Indulgence Overindulgence

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.”

Conscience Abuse Photograph Reports Shock Treatment Prisoner Humiliating Degrading Physical Abuse

Author:Ed Markey

“Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse”

Children Steps Abuse Just One Child Abuse

Author:John Bonham

“People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.”

People Feels Problem Deals Like You Abuse Difficulty Cancer

Author:Jason Isbell

“Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.”

People Abuse Victim Reform Uncomfortable Dentist Universal Laws Toothache

Book:Issawi's laws of social motion

Source: Issawi's laws of social motion

“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”

World Humans Hard Seems Faces Suffering Views Grief Meditation Cry Abuse Praise Instinct Profound Ancient Welcome Worried Impulse Uncertainty These Days Fragile Mistrust Spirited

Author:Patricia Hampl

“No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.”

Has Beens Suffering Found Nations Abuse Slavery Ruins Officers Inconvenience Imposition Inspection

Book:A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana

Source: A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana

“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.”

Men Art Sound Talent Judgment Abuse Department Possessed Inferiors Splendid Neglected Admonition Sound Judgment

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.”

Men Doe Animal Divine Exercise Creatures Authority Abuse Beast Dominion Divine Right Sacrilegious

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”

Humans Certain Black Animal Benefits Abuse Praise Breaths Slavery Expenses Criticize Animal Rights Holocaust Ambiguity Convenient Animal Abuse

Author:Adela Popescu

“There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.”

People Today Lying Laughing Tomorrow Abuse Rounds Abusive

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

Art Form Actors Emotion Emotional Art Is Abuse Dramatic Masturbation Cathartic Acting From Actors

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.”

People Abuse Motive Charmed

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.”

Men Should Abuse Forgotten

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.”

Differences Abuse Clubs Cruelty Wounded Arrows Refined Bruised Coarse

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.”

Men Mind Wisdom Wise Rocks Wind Honor Abuse Disturbed

Author:Dalai Lama

“I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.”

Should Animal Numbers Dog Cat Abuse Agree Priorities Chickens Stopping

Author:Pamela Anderson

“As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”

Knows Feels May Stills Able Pain Suffering Grows Water Cutting Alive Baby Bird Abuse Pressure Hot Injury Chickens Throat Dropping Tanks Breeding Hot Water Beaks Kfc

Author:Pamela Anderson

“People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.”

People Humans Birth Abuse Performing Family And Friends

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.”

War Country Government Democracy Greater Abuse Tolerate Mislead Abuse Of Power Breach Public Trust

Author:John F. Kerry

“Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.”

People Abuse Survived

Author:John Bradshaw

“It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.”

Humans Matter Human Nature Abuse Who You Are

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.”

Has Beens Might House Serious Abuse Tragedy Hopefully Senate Might Have Been Watergate

Author:John Dean

“There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.”

Men Humans Human Beings Abuse Torture Outrage Dichotomy

Author:Oscar Romero

“One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.”

Keys Civilization Waste Abuse Blow Witness Servant Accountability Fraud Civil Servants

Author:Byron Dorgan

“To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.”

Children Light Justice Abuse Protected Exploitation

Author:Ann Veneman

“Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.”

Thinking Real Age Healthy Concern Abuse Steroid

Author:Ben Miller

“Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. They are becoming more and more independent, and are starting to make decisions that will affect them now and into the future. Combine this new responsibility with all the stress and pressures in their lives and the result, unfortunately, can be substance abuse.”

Want Girl Decision Results Responsibility Becoming Abuse Stress Pressure Independent Starting Substance Becoming More Substance Abuse

Author:Atoosa Rubenstein

“We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities.”

Has Beens Government Levels Policy Creating Evidence Abuse Torture Officials Systematic Atrocities High Level Government Officials

Author:Anthony Romero

“The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.”

“Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Wanted Felt Silence Talking Break Abuse Thrive Better Place Secrecy

Author:Chris Witty

“Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS”

Kids Risk Streets Youth Higher Abuse Including Illness Aids Shelter Homeless Assault Hiv Sexual Assault Hiv Aids

Author:Jewel

“When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.”

People Has Beens War Rights Abuse Calamity Allegiance Monarchs

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.”

Ifs Men Character Powerful Careers Serious Abuse Crisis Independence Strikes Vulnerable Foe Rugged

Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

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