Abuse Quotes - Page 29

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.

I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

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

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do go on Twitter to abuse people. When that becomes clear then Twitter has a moral duty to shut those people down when they see that somebody is there solely for the purpose of abusing others. Yeah you have free speech, but what you don't have is the right to wield your speech like a cudgel to somebody who has done nothing to earn it.

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.