Quotes on Abuse

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.

Author: Lucille Allard

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Author: Neal Barnard

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

Author: Carol Bellamy

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Author: Mary Berry

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Author: Jorge Borges

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Author: Charles Bradlaugh

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Author: Sitting Bull

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Author: Emile Cioran

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Author: Richard Cobden

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Author: James Cooper

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

Author: Jon Corzine

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

Author: Carol Duffy

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Author: Albert Ellis

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Author: Alan Greenspan

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Author: Kenny Guinn

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Author: Douglas Horton

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Author: Edgar Howe

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Author: Zora Hurston

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

Author: William Jenkins

Use, don't abuse.

Author: Grace Jones

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Author: Rick Larsen

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

Author: Lindsay Lohan

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

Author: Catharine MacKinnon

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Author: Marya Mannes

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

Author: Ed Markey

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

Author: Jane Mayer

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.

Author: Michael McCaul

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

Author: Arthur Murray

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

Author: Tatum O'Neal

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

Author: Charles Pickering

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

Author: Richard Pryor

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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

Author: Ronald Reagan

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

Author: Antoine Rivarol

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

Author: Jim Ryun

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

Author: Charlie Sheen

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

Author: Lamar Smith

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Author: Leigh Steinberg

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Author: Harriet Stowe

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

Author: Lynn Swann

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

Author: Bob Uecker

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

Author: James Walsh

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Author: George Washington

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

Author: Diane Watson

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

Author: John Yoo