Top Abuse Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Abuse quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Plautus
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
- Plautus
Collection: Abuse
Image of Marissa Meyer
It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.
- Marissa Meyer
Collection: Abuse
Image of Naomi Wolf
It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.
- Naomi Wolf
Collection: Abuse
Image of François-René de Chateaubriand
Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.
- François-René de Chateaubriand
Collection: Abuse
Image of Sinead O'Connor
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
- Sinead O'Connor
Collection: Abuse
Image of Herbert M. Shelton
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.
- Herbert M. Shelton
Collection: Abuse
Image of Stefan Molyneux
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
- Stefan Molyneux
Collection: Abuse
Image of Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
- Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Collection: Abuse
Image of Cotton Mather
Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
- Cotton Mather
Collection: Abuse
Image of William Winwood Reade
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
- William Winwood Reade
Collection: Abuse
Image of George Horne
Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter they intoxicate the brain and lead into swamps of thought where there is no solid footing. Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words.
- George Horne
Collection: Abuse
Image of Hoyt Axton
Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.
- Hoyt Axton
Collection: Abuse
Image of Emmanuel Lubezki
I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?
- Emmanuel Lubezki
Collection: Abuse
Image of Laura Davies
Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
- Laura Davies
Collection: Abuse
Image of Michael Connelly
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
- Michael Connelly
Collection: Abuse
Image of Alan Cumming
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
- Alan Cumming
Collection: Abuse
Image of Rahm Emanuel
Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.
- Rahm Emanuel
Collection: Abuse
Image of Bob Allen
A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.
- Bob Allen
Collection: Abuse
Image of Martha McSally
My colleagues and I fought to increase the resources to address several things, like maternity, prenatal, and newborn care, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. These are things everybody should care about, and resources should be available for families.
- Martha McSally
Collection: Abuse
Image of Louise Mensch
Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.
- Louise Mensch
Collection: Abuse
Image of Richard Ebeling
The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.
- Richard Ebeling
Collection: Abuse
Image of Cleta Mitchell
Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.
- Cleta Mitchell
Collection: Abuse
Image of Erin Merryn
As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.
- Erin Merryn
Collection: Abuse
Image of Pam Grier
I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
- Pam Grier
Collection: Abuse
Image of Frank Hall
Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.
- Frank Hall
Collection: Abuse
Image of Edward Livingston
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
- Edward Livingston
Collection: Abuse
Image of Mike Godwin
The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.
- Mike Godwin
Collection: Abuse
Image of Julian Assange
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.
- Julian Assange
Collection: Abuse
Image of Jenny Holzer
Abuse of power comes as no surprise
- Jenny Holzer
Collection: Abuse
Image of Chris Asplen
It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.
- Chris Asplen
Collection: Abuse
Image of Jeremy Corbyn
I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.
- Jeremy Corbyn
Collection: Abuse
Image of Vladimir Lenin
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
- Vladimir Lenin
Collection: Abuse
Image of Tasha Smith
I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself.
- Tasha Smith
Collection: Abuse
Image of Myles Munroe
When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Abuse
Image of Wendell Berry
We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
- Wendell Berry
Collection: Abuse
Image of Matthew Kelly
The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good
- Matthew Kelly
Collection: Abuse
Image of Margaret Thatcher
Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: Abuse
Image of Miguel Angel Ruiz
Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Collection: Abuse
Image of Robbie Williams
I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
- Robbie Williams
Collection: Abuse
Image of Voltaire
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
- Voltaire
Collection: Abuse
Image of Kerry Washington
I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.
- Kerry Washington
Collection: Abuse
Image of Alfred de Musset
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
- Alfred de Musset
Collection: Abuse
Image of Richard Whately
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
- Richard Whately
Collection: Abuse
Image of Horace Bushnell
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
- Horace Bushnell
Collection: Abuse
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collection: Abuse
Image of Jeff Sessions
I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.
- Jeff Sessions
Collection: Abuse
Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: Abuse
Image of Vandana Shiva
The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
- Vandana Shiva
Collection: Abuse