Abuse Quotes - Page 29

• What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

  William Winwood Reade

  Doubt, Society, Sin

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.

  Charlotte Laws

  Animal, Tools, Research

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• I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Miserable, Mercy

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

  James A. Garfield

  Light, Darkness, Owl

  "General Garfield as a Statesman and Orator". Book by Garfield A. James, 1881.

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• I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

  Bill Murray

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Waiting In Line

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• The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.

  James F. Cooper

  Passion, Power, Men

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 191, 1838.

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• Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Power, Men

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• Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

  Alexander Masters

  Fall, Fighting, Mushrooms

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

  Ogden Nash

  Sports, Heart, Eye

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• Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Perfect, Secret

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• Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

  Bell Hooks

  Definitions, Definition Of Love, Accepting

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

  Zell Miller

  Giving, Soldier, Coffins

  Zell Miller's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.cbsnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

  Belinda Carlisle

  Thinking, Years, Voice

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• When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

  Ruud Gullit

  Player, Black, Authority

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• We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Suffering, Injustice

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• Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

  Arthur Caplan

  Fall, Kids, Eugenics

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• Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

  Jon Evans

  Pain, Animal, Men

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• The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.

  James Carville

  Country, Sick, Forget

  "Gulf oil well still gushing". www.abc.net.au. May 31, 2010.

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• Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

  Tecumseh

  Wise, Native American, Vision

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

  Auberon Waugh

  Liars, Being Ignored, Forgiving

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• Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

  Larry Wall

  True Friend, Reserves

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• Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

  Daniel Schorr

  People, Welfare, Newts

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• My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Fear, Taken, Enemy

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• "Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

  Brigid Brophy

  Compassion, People, Sentimental

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• Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

  John Sentamu

  Children, Church, Matter

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