Abuse Quotes

• On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called nine-to-fivers. In stark contrast, women are more likely not to take risks, even when the risks are minimal. What's the message to our sons? Our praise of our sons when they risk physical danger teaches them that a willingness to be physically abused creates love. Abuse-as-love? Yes.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Job
  • Small
  • Health

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Stone

• As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Team
  • Respect
  • Player

• We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

  

  David Elkind
  • May
  • Commitment
  • Abuse

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

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Abuse
  • Overcome
  • Neglect

• Mel H. Buffalo, an advisor to the Samson Cree band in Hobbema, Alberta, reported that 'every Indian person I've spoken to who attended these schools has a story of mental, physical or sexual abuse to relate.'

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Band
  • Abuse

• But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Evil
  • Guilty
  • Righteousness

• Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

  

  Patch Adams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Nature

• When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Country
  • Power
  • Stop

• Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Money
  • Selfishness
  • Appeals

• We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • World
  • Women
  • Kind

• Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

  

  Doug Ose
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• 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.

  

  James Monroe
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Abuse

• I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Penny Pritzker
  • People
  • Work
  • Relationship

• There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

  

  John Bolton
  • Abuse

• As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Abuse
  • Arrows
  • Battlefield

• You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.

  

  Danielle de Niese
  • Abuse

• When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Language
  • Strange

• I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

  

  Blu Cantrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• It is problematic to imagine yourself in the shoes of a criminal and conclude, 'Well, I wouldn’t have done that'-because if you weren’t exposed to in utero cocaine, lead poisoning, or physical abuse, and he was, then you don’t fit in his shoes. Even if you would like to imagine what it’s like to be him, you won’t be very good at it.

  

  David Eagleman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Shoes

• The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are clearly deplorable. No matter how many great films he's bullied into production, or his guilt-induced contributions to left-minded ideals, this kind of intimidation and abuse of power is perverse and utterly unforgivable. Period.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Great
  • Power
  • Period

• (Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People
  • Children
  • Moral

• Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Abuse

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