Abuse Quotes - page 2

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would. (Kent McCord)
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. View quote
Louise Slaughter
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. View quote
Lynn Johnston
Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse. View quote
Rick Larsen
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. View quote
William P. Leahy
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, of the independence of the United States: a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind. View quote
John Adams
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. View quote
James Madison
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. View quote
James Madison
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course. View quote
John Tyler
Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies. View quote
Sania Mirza
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! (Ozzy Osbourne)
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. View quote
Banksy
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. View quote
Cicero
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent. View quote
Brigham Young
The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech. View quote
Mike Godwin
Mere abuse is no criticism. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. (Scott Lynch)
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals? View quote
Kenan Evren
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk