Use And Abuse Quotes

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  Edmund Burke

  Bullying, Freedom, Work

  Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

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• Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

  Voltaire

  Happiness, Men, Advice

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• Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Names

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• Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Drug, Abuse

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Abuse

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• To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, People, Abuse

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• Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Abuse

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• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Political, Abuse, Arbitrary

  Abbie Hoffman (1987). “Steal this Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America”, Penguin Group USA

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• ...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world.

  Rod Dreher

  Christian, Attitude, Self

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• The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.

  Liz Marshall

  Animal, Reality, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully.

  Humphry Osmond

  Religious, Abuse, Substance

  Humphry Osmond, Jerome Agel (1981). “Predicting the past: memos on the enticing universe of possibility”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them.... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Numbers, Community

  Tom Regan, Peter Singer (1976). “Animal rights and human obligations”, Prentice Hall

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• My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

  Nigel Rees

  Father, Taken, Mean

  "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.

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• Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an impact on the course of events. Monetary and real phenomena are connected in a reflexive fashion; that is, they influence each other mutually. The reflexive relationship manifests itself most clearly in the use and abuse of credit.

  George Soros

  Fashion, Real, Impact

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Believe, Men, Radical Feminism

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, People, Abuse

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Remembering”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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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, Abuse, Trying

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

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