Abuse Quotes - Page 25

• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Snow

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• The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

  Charles A. Reich

  Evil, Competition, Causes

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plots, blockades, and interventions made them lose their heads. All evidence indicates that revolutionary tribunals, functioning in the light of day and admitting the right of defence, would have attained the same efficiency with far less abuse and depravity. Was it necessary to revert to the procedures of the Inquisition?

  Victor Serge

  Believe, Errors, Light

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• Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are--each one of us--responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Football, Country, Team

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• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Quotations

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• One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

  Takeda Nobushige

  Dragons, Soldier, Enemy

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• Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Age, Doe, Body

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• Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, Rights, Hands

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• We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Purpose, May, Way

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

  Louise Mensch

  Violent

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• Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.

  Randy Alcorn

  Spiritual, Children, Men

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• I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?

  Zach Braff

  Girl, Mean, White

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• All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

  Richard Stallman

  Rights, Government, Should

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• Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.

  Raymond Kendall

  Country, War, Years

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• [Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works... [I]t is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Marijuana, Years, Community

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• Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Greatest Treasure, Tears

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properly

  Mark Skousen

  Freedom, Children, Rights

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• I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

  Garth Ennis

  Hands, People, Literature

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• These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.

  George Q. Cannon

  God, Nature, Animal

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• Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

  Gideon Gono

  Luxury, Car, Want

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• The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal.

  Sydney Walker

  Psychosis, Drug Use, Differences

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• Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Powerful, Practice, Evil

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• Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

  Christine Warren

  Time, Giving, Suffering

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• Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Wealth, Expenses

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• When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

  Rachel Simmons

  Kindness, Generosity, Giving

  "The Curse of the Good Girl". Book by Rachel Simmons, www.today.com. 2009.

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