Abuse Quotes - Page 32

• I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

  Pamela Anderson

  Baby, Pain, Cutting

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• People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  People, Family And Friends, Birth

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• Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

  John Bradshaw

  People, Survived

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• It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

  Naomi Wolf

  Matter, Human Nature, Humans

  "The End of America? Naomi Wolf Thinks It Could Happen". Interview with Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. November 20, 2007.

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• Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

  John Dean

  House, Tragedy, Might

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• There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

  Oscar Romero

  Men, Outrage, Torture

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• One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

  Byron Dorgan

  Blow, Civilization, Keys

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• To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

  Ann Veneman

  Children, Light, Justice

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• Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.

  Ben Miller

  Real, Thinking, Healthy

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• Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. They are becoming more and more independent, and are starting to make decisions that will affect them now and into the future. Combine this new responsibility with all the stress and pressures in their lives and the result, unfortunately, can be substance abuse.

  Atoosa Rubenstein

  Girl, Stress, Independent

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• We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities.

  Anthony Romero

  Government, Creating, Atrocities

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• The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.

  Irene Khan

  Kings, Military, Army

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• Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.

  Chris Witty

  Talking, People, Silence

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• Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

  Constance Briscoe

  Children, Doors, May

  "Jury clears judge of libelling mother in 'misery memoir'" by Rachel Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2008.

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• I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Astrology, Long, Hook

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.253

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• Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .

  Ernest Renan

  Dream, Jesus, Ideas

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• A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Borders, Genius

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.98

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• I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Husband, Party, Home

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• But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Responsibility, Law, Punishment

  "Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Selfish, Opportunity, Government

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

  George Washington

  Money, Power, Office

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• So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

  John Milton

  Littles, Worst, Best Things

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.248, Penguin

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• My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

  Nigel Rees

  Father, Taken, Mean

  "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.

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• The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Self, Bed, World

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