Abuse Quotes - Page 33

• For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.

  Brigham Young

  Race, Black, Repent

  Journal of Discourses, Vol.10, p. 110, 1863.

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• It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Common Sense, Innovation

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

  Clarence Thomas

  Rights, Law, Justice

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• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Two, Hatred

  James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206

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• Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Voice

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• All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

  Richard Aldington

  Children, Patriotic, Teach

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• If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dream, Taken, Simple

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.12, Powell Publications, LLC

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• In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

  Cat Stevens

  Mistake, Islamic, Thinking

  "Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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• When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Doe, Murder

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Trying

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

  Larry Wall

  Leaving, May, Language

  Usenet article <199709251614.JAA15718@wall.org>, 1997.

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• During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Years, House, Liberty

  Speech at Birmingham, 4th August 1884, quoted in "The House of Lords: A handbook for Liberal speakers, writers and workers" by Liberal Publication Department, (p. 96), 1910.

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• Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We have to make an affirmative stand on it.

  Steve Young

  Organization, League, Perspective

  "Steve Young Calls Out The NFL For Only Banning Ray Rice Because The Elevator Video Came Out" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. September 08, 2014.

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• I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Only Child, Abstinence

  "'Penn & Teller: Bullshit!' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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• THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

  Benjamin Graham

  Agreement, Credit, Elements

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 153, 1937.

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• Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

  Julian Assange

  Powerful, Media, Around The World

  "A Conversation With Julian Assange". Interview with John Cook, gawker.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

  Martin Gardner

  Memories, Growing, Scandal

  Martin Gardner (1996). “Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher”

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• The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

  Alan Keyes

  Animal, Slavery, Moral

  Alan Keyes' Speech in Wisconsin, www.keyesarchives.com. March 26, 2000.

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• With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

  Ted Nugent

  Party, Feel Good, Mind

  "Captain McShitpants blasts Matt Damon on Palin". The Christian Science Monitor, September 18, 2008.

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• Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Two, Pyramids, Evil

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

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• Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.

  Rahul Bose

  Girl, Sex, Children

  "Rahul Bose: We are all hypocrites". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. September 26, 2009.

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• It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

  Chris Asplen

  Regulation, Problem, Vague

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• True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.

  Thomas Gordon

  Pain, Character, Men

  "Cato's Letter" No. 57, Of false Honour, publick and private, December 16, 1721.

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• Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

  Nick Bostrom

  Mother, Children, Real

  "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity". Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, nickbostrom.com. 2005.

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