Abuse Quotes - Page 19

• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. I was proud when President Nixon ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor, which we should have done long ago, because I think we're helping a brave little country defend herself against Communist invasion. That's what I tried to show in The Green Berets and I took plenty of abuse from the critics.

  John Wayne

  Country, Thinking, Long Ago

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  Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Limits, Constitution

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Recovery, Emotional Abuse, Survived

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• We're talking a lot about bullying and harassment and abuse tonight, and I can freely say that at some point in the future I want to play someone who is homophobic and racist and sexist -- that appeals to me as an actor, to explore that.

  Rex Lee

  Bullying, Talking, Play

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• I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

  Emmanuel Lubezki

  Film, Incredibles, These Days

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• Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.

  Elvis Presley

  Shoes, Judgement, Politics

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• Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown of organized society. And there is nothing compassionate about what's happening to the people of Arizona. There is nothing compassionate about the violation of private property rights. There is nothing compassionate about the abuse of the taxpayer. There is nothing compassionate about the closing of schools and hospitals. Nothing at all compassionate about increased drug trafficking and crime. Nothing compassionate about that at all.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Blessing, Rights

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  Jackie Robinson

  Respect, Mistake, Loneliness

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• Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

  Arundhati Roy

  Army, America, People

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Tyrants, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Investing, Paper, Advantage

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

  George Washington

  Real, Heart, Government

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.8

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• It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

  James Madison

  Government, Negative, Purpose

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• The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, Home, Loss

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations and abuses that might be warranted by the terms of the Constitution. It must never be forgotten, however, that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government, as by the limitation of power.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Government, People, Promise

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”

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• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Motherhood, Expression, Morality

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov

  Impact, Russia, Ukraine

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• Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with substance abuse, financial hardship, job loss, mental illness and divorce deserve our love, support, and compassion. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory". Interview with Monica Edinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2014.

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• To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Errors, Names, Hints

  Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Ḥalimī (1962). “Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion”, Andre Deutsch

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• What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosopher, Pity, Made

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• My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude...You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be.

  Jefferson Davis

  Strong, Book, Law

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• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, League, Withdrawal

  Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Inspiration, Struggle

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• It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Long, Self Love, Alcohol

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