Abuse Quotes - Page 40

• The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

  Eva Mendes

  People, Substance, Biographies

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, uk.askmen.com. November 20, 2009.

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• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Government, People

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.

  Jim Jefferies

  Two, Comedian, Trying

  Source: manofmany.com

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• In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

  Charlton Heston

  Sex, Thinking, Tolerance

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• I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Death Of A Loved One, Parent, Ambitious

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Years, Difficult, God's Love

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• I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Way, Thrown

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Mind, Remarks

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

  Sanna Lenken

  Drug, Eating Disorder, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted.

  Sanna Lenken

  People, Sick, Eating Disorder

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

  Andrew Solomon

  Home, Drug, Criminals

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• Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.

  Bonnie St. John

  People, Childhood, Connections

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• I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Political, President

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.101, Rowman & Littlefield

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• After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Unhappy, Democracy, Republic

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1049, Oxford University Press

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• I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.

  Allan Boesak

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, People, Variables

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• Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrite

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• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  John Locke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Long

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• I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

  John Adams

  Grief, Faith Religion, Historical

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. September 03, 1816.

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• Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

  Adam Smith

  Philosophy, People, Political

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• Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

  Voltaire

  Love, Crush, Different

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• Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

  Lord Hailsham

  Drug, Liberty, Hallmark

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