Abuse Quotes - Page 11
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.
David C. Korten (1995). “When Corporations Rule the World”, Island Press
David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.31, Harvard University Press
Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.
Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.4, Health Communications, Inc.
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.45, Penguin
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.463
Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.140, Oxford University Press
Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.8, New Victoria Publishers
What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?
Song: Mercy, Mercy Me
Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.
Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.128, Penguin
Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.171, Transaction Publishers
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Gathas”, p.101, Library of Alexandria