“People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.” PeopleIfsHumansChildrenStillsFightingAnimalRightsLandOughtAbuseHuman RightsAnimal RightsChild AbuseFar Away Author:Jane Goodall
“I have great concern, but my concern is probably not what most people would think it would be.My concern is why is our faith being targeted as part of this inquiry when there are laws on the books and there is legal jurisdiction any time there is abuse in financial handling?” PeopleThinkingBookWould BeLawConcernAbuseFinancialInquiryJurisdiction Author:Paula White
“I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse.” PeopleAbuseVictimJail Author:Rudy Giuliani
“It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.” PeopleImportantDoneGovernmentAbuseChecksBeing Done Author:Barack Obama
“I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.” PeopleNeedsPartyLibertyStudySonAbuseOriginalsSpreadBritishTeaFoundersCommitteesBostonTea PartyColonyCorrespondence Author:Nat Hentoff
“When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.” PeopleKindChildrenStoriesAbuseInstance Author:Desmond Tutu
“The one thing I cannot tolerate in life is seeing people being taken advantage of, I cannot tolerate it; I can't even see it in a movie. That can borderline on abuse and so what I would say is: really know when to put that guard up, and know how to really read people because that will help you along the way.” PeopleKnowsWayI CanHelpingLife IsKnow HowTakenSeeingOne ThingAdvantageAbuseTolerateBorderlineTaken AdvantageGuards Up Author:Eva Mendes
“[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.” PeopleShouldHumansBodyLightPoliticalBornRightsDangerousHealthyDignityAbuseUnionsHuman RightsMedicalTreatmentSovietContinuingSurgeryThreateningSoviet UnionPsychiatrySubjectionHealthy BodyMutilationTranssexuals Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they needed to make sure that they have a proper legal process, proper detention, no abuse of people during interrogation and all of that. And so, we agreed.” PeopleGivingShouldGovernmentAsksProcessSupportNeededAbuseSouthSouth AfricaInterrogationDetention Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.” PeopleShouldHeartSelfGovernmentHellMediaInspireAbuseCorruptionCurseEmployeeAccountabilityApathyEmbarrassingAbuse Of PowerRunawayCriminalitySelf Inflicted Author:Ted Nugent
“Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.” PeopleKnowsLittlesEnoughProblemBigsPlanetsMouthsEmptyAbuseGreedIncrediblesGhostHungryBuddhistBelly Author:Alice Walker
“Physically abusive and verbally abuse marriages are very, very difficult situations. I fully understand people in those kinds of marriages who think there is no hope. I also know that the advice that is given by most people is simply... get out of there as fast as you can.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindGivenDifficultSituationAdviceAbuseNo HopeAbusiveDifficult Situations Author:Gary Chapman
“Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.” PeopleImportantMediaAbuseAccountsElsewhere Author:George H. W. Bush
“A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingKindKnow HowPersonalityBehaviorAbuseOur FamilyBranchesBarriersFenceProtectiveOlivesKind WordsOlive Branches Author:Russell Hornsby
“When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I'm joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it's really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.” PeopleThinkingLittlesFunStuffFeminismFootballSeriousNewsAbuseFaults Author:Rush Limbaugh
“LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".” PeopleWorldChildrenTwoCountryStatesUseProblemUsedUnitedNumbersWonderUnited StatesEffectsFineDrugThousandAbusePreparedWaveReactionsJournalCaution1960sPublicationShort TimeLsdProblem Child Author:Albert Hofmann
“Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most Whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the Black community.” PeopleThinkingKindHas BeensHandsBlackCommunityWhiteAbusePoliceAfrican AmericanSensitiveDepartmentOfficersPolice OfficerBlack CommunityPolice Department Author:Bernie Sanders
“We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America or Britain, or whether it's something happening out there in one of the countries of conflict. I mean Sri Lanka, the human rights abuse there is appalling.” PeopleHumansMeanCountryAmericaGirlBlackCommunityRightsConflictHappeningsAbuseVictimHuman RightsBritainSri LankaBlack GirlRural Communities Author:Roma Tearne
“Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveReligiousAbuseQuranHegemony Author:Asghar Ali Engineer
“I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just do. So many people have been abused, it's not rare, it's a very common human experience, and we survive. Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.” PeopleWayHumansHas BeensPlayBigsMotherStrongDifferencesCommonRolesAbuseMaking A DifferenceSurvivorHuman ExperienceOutlets Author:India.Arie
“At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed. Condoleezza Rice brings in Donald Rumsfeld for a meeting, and they all agree they have to do something. Nothing gets done. Did everybody understand we were going to be as tough as we could be people we thought were Al Qaeda? Is there a better way to get information, get their trust, establish rapport, try to change their views? Nobody wants to think about that. It's just, let's beat them up. And that attitude was widespread throughout the Administration.” PeopleThinkingTryingWarDoneAttitudeOfficeSummerToughAbuseAgreeMeetingsPrisonerRiceAl QaedaRapport Author:Seymour Hersh
“I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do go on Twitter to abuse people. When that becomes clear then Twitter has a moral duty to shut those people down when they see that somebody is there solely for the purpose of abusing others. Yeah you have free speech, but what you don't have is the right to wield your speech like a cudgel to somebody who has done nothing to earn it.” PeopleThinkingDonePurposeMoralDutyAbuseFree Speech Author:Anika Noni Rose
“It is not simply the individual who benefits from and is protected by rights, but the society as a whole. Protected freedoms to dissent and criticize those in power help keep abuses of power in check. They combat tendencies of elites to become isolated from and ignorant of the people they deeply affect through their decisions.” PeopleHelpingIndividualDecisionAbuseIgnorantCriticizeDissentAbuse Of Power Author:David Wong
“I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.” PeopleEnergyGrowing UpListeningSingingAbuseRageTherapyFrustrationAbusiveInhibitions Author:Alice Bag
“I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's the point. Showbiz is about showing human things - just amplified, that's all. And when it gets too much into, "Hey, we're part of the showbiz club and we can do what we want," it turns me off and I hate it.” PeopleThinkingHateAbuseI HateShowbiz Author:Jarvis Cocker
“Whenever I talk about being a feminist or speaking out for equality, it's also about the idea that men are treated with respect. It's not just about treating women like people and not abusing them. You also can't abuse men and you can't say things like, 'Oh, he was just a man. He didn't know any better.' Or 'He's a man, what did you expect?' That's just as abusive and damaging to men, I feel.” PeopleMenAbuseFeministAbusiveSpeaking Out Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I had one goal. I wanted people to really learn the tools that could change, because I taught finance for years, I network with people in their 20s, obviously, and all ages I've worked with. But I wanted to just take that to another level, and I also, quite frankly, was just angry. I was angry about the level of abuse I saw in 2008 that happened to people. I knew what happened, I had made a fortune during that time because when things melt down - and they're going to again; life is cyclical - it's one of the greatest opportunities in your life.” PeopleAgeOpportunityGoalAbuseFinance Author:Marc Benioff
“The worst way of oppression involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people of their right to education. Two-thirds of the world's illiterate are women. Sixty-six percent of countries have no laws to protect women from domestic abuse, and battery is the largest cause of injury to women in America.” PeopleChildrenCountryWorstProtectAbuseOppressionVulnerabilityInjuryExploitationIlliterate Author:Alice Glass
“Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit the powers of architecture and urbanism. When addressing urgent situations, whether it's the depletion of the rainforest or abuse of labor, well-meaning people are working with tools, like standards, that seem like very blunt instruments. I am suggesting that spatial variables that are underexploited in governance might add to that repertoire.” PeopleSituationDisciplineLaborAbuseArchitectureBlunt Author:Keller Easterling
“All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.” PeopleSleepDrugAbuseNonsenseDrug Abuse Author:Cass McCombs
“Living in the rural South, you sometimes feel trapped, like you don't have any options. It grinds people down, and of course it leads to substance abuse. I see it all around me. So many people in my family, probably more than 50 percent, have had substance abuse problems, either currently or in the past. It's so personal and immediate to me.” PeopleSometimesProblemPastLike YouMy FamilyAbuseGrindSubstance Abuse Author:Jesmyn Ward
“There were several parallels between Jonestown and Escuela Caribe. Both places used isolation to control a large group of people and censored their communication with the outside world so their loved ones wouldn't know about the rampant physical abuse and misery of the residents. I think the worst fallout, in both cases, was the living in constant fear, witnessing other residents get assaulted and worrying that you'd be next. That's where Post Traumatic Stress Disorder comes from.” PeopleThinkingWorldWorryWorstCommunicationAbuseStressMiseryIsolationLoved Ones Author:Julia Scheeres
“Actually, I don't think most people join white supremacist groups because of the ideology or dogma. They gravitate to these groups because they've hit potholes in their lives and there are things they can't figure out how to navigate on their own. This might be bullying, parental abuse or neglect, mental or physical illness, or, for adults, unemployment.” PeopleThinkingAbuseIllnessIdeologyNeglectBullyingDogmaParental Author:Christian Picciolini
“People are more willing to talk about child abuse. When this whole McMartin thing went down, I was at a dinner party with about eight people, all from different backgrounds and from all over the world. And every single person at that table had had some weird experience as a child. I think everyone has - whether it was with a babysitter, or playing doctor, but usually when some older person tries to come in contact with you. It's amazing how much we block out.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingChildrenDifferentPartyAbuseBlockChild AbuseSingle PersonDinner PartyBabysitter Author:Laura Dern
“What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.” PeopleChildrenStillsAbuseVictimChild AbuseDistress Author:Dave Pelzer
“Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.” PeopleWorldLooksValuesHateEvilAbuseResponsePrisoner Author:Peter Singer
“When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.” PeopleMatterRocksAbuseNo Matter WhatLondonTeenagerIceland Author:Bjork
“What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.” PeopleChildrenRealDesireArtistSufferingLosesForeverTerribleDegreesAbuseSightVictimSexual Desire Author:Jock Sturges
“I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.” PeopleWorldShowsWonderfulExampleAppreciateAbuseBlessedPlentyShow BusinessCharlie Author:Betty White
“The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.” PeopleWayNeedsHumansKindStillsHelpingSeemsGivenSidesWaterBornRaceGoneStupidAbuseCleanDrinkingHuman RaceDecentMassiveSurprisingUnfairRunnersGiven UpJunkSneakersDrinking WaterRefereeHead StartWall And PieceClean Drinking Water Author:Banksy
“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingWritingMadeBookHardCharacterStoriesReadingResearchAbuseDown AndLibraryPrivilegeNosesHard TimesPipe Author:Jennifer Weiner
“It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.” PeopleCountryUseKnownAbusePreservesUse And Abuse Book:Remembering Source: Remembering
“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.” PeopleBelievePainSufferingResultsViolenceDeserveAbuseEncouragementPunishmentSelf DeceptionDeservingNonviolent CommunicationTrickery Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.” PeopleKnowsHeartGovernmentHappensLastsLyingLevelsMediaBrokenConsequenceAbuseKillingStealingAdministrationCorporateCheatingSurvivorLast TimeMonstrousRibsDomestic Abuse Author:Inga Muscio
“In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.” PeopleWayLittlesSaidPoliticalCuttingAirFeetIntellectualFairsAbusePunishmentInsultCommunistFloatsSuspendedJargon Author:Milan Kundera
“But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?” PeopleEvilForceReligiousConflictHatredAbuseGhostBoldnessIncidentsFuryRiotDegeneratesEthnic ConflictAnti Semitic Book:The Judges: A Novel Source: The Judges: A Novel
“The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.” PeopleIfsTryingHappensPoliticalCertainReligiousNumbersEconomicPoliticianProjectsBirdAbuseElectionPlantDemocraticSpeciesEngagedTorturePrisonerRegimesRejectedRulingIndicationLarge NumbersEcosystemsIndicatorsFoolproof Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.” PeopleMayMeanDesireNumbersTypeNeededSucceedAbuseMajorityActiveAcceptedAbuse Of PowerPrecautionTyranny Of The Majority Author:John Stuart Mill
“Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.” PeopleNeedsWellsKindTwoSufferingEvilForceChristSinLove IsWifeReturnProtectHusbandAbuseDiedDisappointmentHarmForgivenThreateningHusband And WifeReadinessKinds Of Love Author:John Piper
“I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.” PeopleLittlesSaidTurnsWaterSituationHeardDegreesAbusePotDomestic ViolenceFrogsBoilingBad SituationsBoiling Water Book:Stay Source: Stay