Abuse Quotes - Page 6

• To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

  Jon Evans

  Life, Society, Cardinals

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• Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

  Mark Poster

  Government, Enemy, Attention

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• The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

  Roger Mahony

  Broken, Church, Immigration

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• There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Government

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• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Spring, Rocks

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Men, Compassion

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• When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Hitting, Normal, Sexually

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• You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sorry, Church, Betrayed

  "Pope Benedict's apology" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  Wendy Craig

  Children, Population, Four

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• If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

  Bill Vaughan

  Drinking, Political, Experts

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• It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Praise, Virtue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.125

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• There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

  Edmund Burke

  Protection, Reverence, Draws

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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• Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Humor, Alcohol

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

  Pope Benedict XVI

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• We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

  Jane D. Hull

  Children, Home, Play

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• I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

  Christopher Eccleston

  School, Kids, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Nature, Community Living

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Culture, Tiny, Fractions

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Order, Islam, Democracy

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• Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Envy, Gossip

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• I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Love, Laughing, Language

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• Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Peace, Foundation, Males

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• If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Friendship, Clever, Ifs

  'The Critic' (1779) act 1, sc. 1

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  John Milton

  Grief, Loss, Dark

  John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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