abuse Quotes

“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.”

“Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.”

“I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.”

“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.”

“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”

“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

“Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.”

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”

“I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.”