Abuse Quotes - Page 4

• Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

  Herbert Ward

  Children, Domestic Violence, Shadow

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• Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

  Bill Jenkins

  Hype, May, Soil

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• I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.

  Tom Cole

  Children, Looks, Harassment

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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Police

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• Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.

  Tom Cole

  Kids, Play, Feet

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• This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

  David E. Bonior

  Knights, Trying, More Time

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Government, Democracy, Statistics

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• Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Regret, Self, Agreement

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

  John Sculley

  Leadership, Teacher, Children

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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Punishment, Double Standard, Decline

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Long, Age

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.84

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• There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Names, No Excuses

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• The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

  James T. Walsh

  Children, Domestic Violence, Innocence

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• The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

  Richard Cobden

  Long, Term, Landlord

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.31

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• Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Animal, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.15, Publishdrive

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• Power without abuse loses its charm.

  Paul Valery

  Charm, Loses

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• Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

  E. W. Howe

  Adversity, Men, Justice

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• I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power

  Terrence Howard

  Police, Natural

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". Interview, movieweb.com. May 05, 2005.

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• Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Men, Groups, Stories

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• Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books, Denial

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

  Jim Ryun

  Children, Growing, Problem

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• You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Depression, Mom, Growing Up

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• Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

  Morris Dees

  Caring, People, Pressure

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• Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Liberty, Possession

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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