Abuse Quotes

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. (Edmund Burke)
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. View quote
James Madison
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
How long now, Catiline, will you abuse our patience. View quote
Cicero
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. View quote
Emil Cioran
Power without abuse loses its charm. View quote
Paul Valéry
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own - even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. (Catharine MacKinnon)
We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. View quote
John Adams
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only antidote. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man. View quote
Al Capone
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. View quote
Aldo Leopold
To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. View quote
Neal Barnard
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. View quote
Albert Ellis
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. (Bobby Scott)
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. View quote
Chris Chocola
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation. View quote
Carol Bellamy