Abuse Quotes

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.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

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

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

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

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.