Abuse Quotes - Page 7

• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• I used alcohol for my panic attacks, to manage stressors.

  Bill N. Lacy

  Alcohol, Panic Attacks, Used

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• I know I'm getting something out of it (counseling), Pat is getting something, even my daughter is getting something out of it. We don't like coming, but it is really helping, and it gives us some place to go together.

  Jack P. Shepherd

  Daughter, Giving, Together

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• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Order, Risk

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

  R. Edward Freeman

  Animal, Race, Faithful

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• Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Long, Logic

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• Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

  Nina Totenberg

  Government, Branches, Limits

  "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.

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• Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Passivity Is, Evil, Bully

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• We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

  David Elkind

  Commitment, Nuclear Families, May

  David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Character, Men, Personality Flaws

  'Vanity Fair' (1847-8) ch. 19

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Respect, Children, Animal Rights

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• We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Peace, Heart

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.

  Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

  Ocean, Marine, Animal

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• Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.

  Woody Harrelson

  Animal, Doors, Years

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• I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Compassion, Race

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• It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Animal, People, Nails

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• More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

  John Powell

  Children, Prison, Percent

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• Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Cat, Animal

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• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Lying, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

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• Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Children, Emotional, People

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• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Greatness, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

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• Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Expression, Natural

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Attitude, Men, Vanity

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• Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

  Deepa Kumar

  Girl, Mother, Two

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• If a 13 year old girl is pregnant, that is evidence of sexual abuse and that’s supposed to be reported to the authorities and these people are never doing it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the American abortion industry is running a pedophile protection racket and they’ve been doing it for years and they’re often getting federal tax dollars to run this thing.

  Mark Crutcher

  Girl, Running, Years

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