Abuse Quotes - Page 4

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.

There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.

It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.