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• All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Criticism, Energy, Too Much

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• Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

  Increase Mather

  Wine, Godly, Thankfulness

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• We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Mean, Self

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• This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

  Wendell Berry

  Ignorance, Character, Oil

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.

  Timothy Ball

  People, Deception, Bamboozle

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• One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Domestic Violence

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• This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

  Salma Hayek

  Domestic Violence, Looks, Flesh

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• The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Inspirational, Violence, Things To Do

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.175, Macmillan

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• No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  Brooke Ellison

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Hope

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• 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 and thoughts of some of the people who see it... I believe that the desensitizing effect of such media abuses on the hearts and souls of those who are exposed to them results in a partial fulfillment of the Savior's statement that 'because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold'.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Attitude, Believe, Heart

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• The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Animal, Essence, Christian Inspirational

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• I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

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• There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

  Moby

  Sports, Animal, Vegan Food

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• Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Real, Views

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• ...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Suffering, Generations

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• Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Silence, Dangerous

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.51

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• 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 society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.

  Pope John Paul II

  Names, Abortion, Way

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wine, Thinking, Injury

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today." The mother says "Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls." The boy's eight. He's thinking, "Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay." And you think, "Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that." Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse.

  Michele Bachmann

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  "Can Michele Bachmann Save Me?" by Michael Kimmel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

  James Madison

  Democracy, Growing, Corporations

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• The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Winning, Long

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Causes, Justify

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• Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Nice, Naughty

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• When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around the world who struggle for the right to speak their minds, to choose their leaders, and to be treated with dignity and respect. We also strengthen our security and well being, because the abuse of human rights can feed many of the global dangers that we confront - from armed conflict and humanitarian crises, to corruption and the spread of ideologies that promote hatred and violence.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Home, Men

  "Beatings, Protests, Arrests Mark 60th Annual Human Rights Day". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2009.

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