Abused Quotes
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The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration's duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. (Quote by - Senator John Kerry)
Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this thought has been impressed and engraved upon our minds that none of the brethren can be injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without [our] injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with our brethren without at the same time disagreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving Him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren's bodies as we take of our own; for they are members of our body; and that, as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of pain which is not spread among all the rest, so we ought not to allow a brother to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for him. (Quote by - John Calvin)
Wearing a police badge gives an officer tremendous power and tremendous responsibility. Twice in recent months, two Chicago police officers have abused that power and shirked their responsibility. Richard Devine)
I've been chased, ... I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment. (Quote by - Howie Mandel)
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused. (Quote by - Motsoko Pheko)
I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons. (Quote by- Sylvester Stallone)
Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still . (Quote by -John Wayne)
Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused. (Quote by - Linda Lingle)
Sgt. Maj. McKinney was a leader who abused his power. (Quote by - Annemarie Conroy)
My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything. (Quote by - Andy Dick)
They'd work you until midnight and get you back at seven in the morning. The actors were taking a terrible licking physically. Generally, as the case with any union, you form it because people are abused. - regarding the formation of the Screen Actors Gui. (Quote by -Charles Lane)
The prosecution abused its power and violated its duty to go into the grand jury room and present the evidence fairly and accurately. (Quote by - Robert Sanger)
The dogs are starved to make them mean. They are fed gunpowder and hot pepper before a fight, and they are regularly abused. Losing dogs are often doused in gasoline and burned or tied to weights and drowned. (Quote by - Martin Mersereau)
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. (Quote by - Bruce Nauman)
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Abused patience turns to fury. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
We've got kids who have problems in school, kids who've been abused, some kids that this is their last resort before going into foster care. Sometimes our talks in circle-ups (around campfires) are so heart-touching that we all cry. (Quote by - Anne Angelelli)
The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused. (Quote by - Benjamin Constant)
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do. (Quote by - Tim Roth)
If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst. (Quote by - Emerson)
Food is abused by so many people. It just scares me a little to see something like this celebrated. (Quote by - D. Milton Stokes)
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
And it tries to strengthen procedural safeguards for the most vulnerable of children from contiguous countries, such as asylum seekers, and abused, abandoned or neglected children. That includes children who are too young to make a decision on voluntary departure, or children who are incompetent by virtue of mental retardation. (Quote by - Christopher Nugent)
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just. (Quote by -Anna Nicole Smith)
All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life. (Quote by - Richard L. Evans)
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain. Allan Moss)
I have the impression that the images that surround us today are worn out, they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. When I look at the postcards in tourist shops and the. (Quote by -Werner Herzog)
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, - The glory, jest, and riddle. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties. (Quote by - Proverb)
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. (Quote by - George Washington)
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans. (Quote by - Rachel Weisz)
I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority. (Quote by - Pamela Anderson)
The government of China has become like UK and US a pirate of innocent kidnapped pharmaceutically abused primates. (Quote by - O. Anna Niemus)
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. (Quote by - John Powell)
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. Lois McMaster Bujold)
We believe that the binding policy is one of the main reasons migrant workers are abused. These workers are entitled to the basic freedom to choose their own employer. (Quote by - Shevy Korzen)
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry. (Quote by - Rick James)
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate. (Quote by -Russell Means)
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity. (Quote by - Bruce Friedrich)
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. (Quote by - Armistead Maupin)
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks the U.S. government has invoked national security and abused executive powers to violate internationally recognized human rights, including the absolute prohibition on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. If the U.S. does not recognize its human rights obligations under international law, what reason do other governments have to uphold human rights. (Quote by - Jamil Dakwar)
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another. (Quote by - Jane Porter)
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with _Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of . (Quote by -Steven Spielberg)
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
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. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
What do you do in a situation where you know if you stay back in the house, you may be abused sexually? There may be a possibility of you not even surviving, not even getting a meal to eat. (Quote by - Ranjana Kumari)
