Misused Words Quotes

• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Misuse, Mislead

  'Principles of Ethics' bk. 1 (1879) pt. 2, ch. 8, 152

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• Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Enmity, Misuse, Made

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

  Larry Flynt

  Love, True Friend, Vocabulary

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• There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

  Jim Leach

  Socialism, Communism, Fascism

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• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  Hans Kung

  War, Often Is, Goal

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Happiness, Basketball

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Government

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

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• Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

  Rooney Mara

  Character, Ipods, Black

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• Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Revenge, Forever, Reputation

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• Coward is the most misused word in our society.

  Doug Stanhope

  Society, Coward, Our Society

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

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