Misused Quotes

• Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, This Generation, Generations

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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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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• I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

  Anthony Braxton

  Community, Isms, Able

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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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• If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

  Richard Serra

  People, Way, Fields

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• It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

  Michael Kinsley

  Equality, Would Be, Recipes

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• But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Running, Jobs, Two

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. January 2, 2006.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Motivation, Enlightening

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.69, Penguin

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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• We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

  Wesley Clark

  Long, Information, Administration

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• Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

  Jimenez Lai

  Meaningful, Drawing, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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• Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Perfect, Tools

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• You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution
  A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it
  And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built
  And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods
  And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are
  As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

  Malcolm X

  Color, Long, People

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• Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Reality, Mad, Magic

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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• My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

  Stephen King

  Views, People, Tools

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Lost, Pens

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1905). “The Story of a Literary Career”

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• I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to the core. People want to be masters of their own destinies, but at the same time, I think they do so selectively. Sometimes they want to be told exactly what to do so they don't have to think for themselves - as long as they can still exercise their free will.

  Shepard Fairey

  Exercise, Destiny, Thinking

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

  Pete Seeger

  World, Property, Ifs

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• Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

  Gary Zukav

  Love Life, Caring, Giving

  "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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