Abuse Quotes - Page 8

• Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Domestic Violence, Weapons, Vulgar

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  One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

  Michael J. Fox

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.

  Beverly Engel

  Self Confidence, Emotional, Perception

  "Emotionally Abused Women". Online Chat, www.healthyplace.com.

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• Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

  Dave Barry

  God, Stupid, Privilege

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• Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Fear, Shadow, Violence

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• The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

  James Bovard

  Powerful, Lying, Government

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Sarcasm, Intellect

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Gathas”, p.101, Library of Alexandria

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• A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Men, Thinking, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Law, Injustice, Policy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

  Francis Quarles

  Anger, Power, Long

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• When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, Winning

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• It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

  Chris Witty

  Children, Secret, Important

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• Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

  Plautus

  Looks, Calumny, Look At Yourself

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• There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, People, Laughing

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• All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Encouragement, Pain, Believe

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• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  Ted Nugent

  Government, Deceit, Corruption

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• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Power, Presidential

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

  Confucius

  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Sex, Clothes, Blue

  Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  John Adams

  Party, Government, Unnecessary War

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America

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• Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

  George Pell

  People, Abortion, Scandal

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• Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Running, Political, Politics

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• FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.

  Bill Phillips

  Fitness, Monday, Food

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• Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.

  Tina Modotti

  Art, Trying, Done

  Tina Modotti, Robert Miller, Spencer Throckmorton, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Tina Modotti: photographs”

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