Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We're finding just the opposite. We've found more retinal hemorrhages in non-abuse cases than in abu...
PATRICK LANTZ The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE Child abuse is a problem no one really talks about. Abuse and neglect is the number 1 cause of injur...
DONNA MILLER The inherently dangerous felony in this case is abuse of a child.
CHARLES BRANSON When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i...
VALERIE SINASON I had every symptom of depression other than drug or alcohol abuse.
BROOKE SCHMITZ When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i...
VALERIE SINASON Abuse comes in many forms: emotional, physical, psychological, sexual, psychic, etc. When someone be...
BRANDI KEELER Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the ...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISON With every innovation comes a new abuse.
DAVID V. KIMBALL It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.
MARISSA MEYER They definitely take more abuse than any golfer ever will. Golfers are making a lot more money than ...
ANDY MACDONALD Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United States. It was estimated that in 200...
PETE DOMENICI This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you ab...
DAVID BONIOR A human is more dangerous than a carnivore itself
JAI SINGH Women involved in out-patient treatment for substance abuse were interviewed to examine their recoll...
ELIZABETH F. LOFTUS just because they don’t hit you doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse. wouldn’t you think it a crim...
AMANDA LOVELACE How can one heal from abuse while the abuse continues?
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
UNKNOWN What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
ISABEL ALLENDE Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name it...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When we begin to say to police officers that they're allowed to guess about who's dangerous, we're i...
BARRY STEINHARDT Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the ea...
MICHAEL SALTER You can't want reform more than a country itself does.
GENE SPERLING It is not surprising that we need to do more. I mean, this is child abuse. There is always more to b...
ANDREA INGRAM It wasn't substantial abuse -- it was just abuse.
RON PETERSON Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liber...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is a constant struggle to be happy in the sadness of abuse.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable,
KAREN ADAMS Animal abuse is next to human abuse and I don't know why they think this is no big deal.
COURTNEY EMKEN Perpetrators of abuse often make their victims believe that they are somehow responsible for their o...
MALLIKA NAWAL ... sexual abuse by the mother is considered to he one of the most traumatic forms of abuse. In some...
CAMERON WEST Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
ALFRED DE MUSSET However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and go...
BELINDA CARLISLE While the law is aimed at reducing drug abuse it actually causes more drug abuse in our society by b...
TOM ANGELL Every reform needs examples more than advocates
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Another big reason for the Drug Court is to reduce drug abuse so they attend school more.
BRAD JOHNSON Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar
SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at ...
JO BRAND American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
DON DELILLO During a period in which women and children’s testimony of incest and sexual abuse were gaining an...
MICHAEL SALTER The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) We need to stop perpetrators before they abuse our children. We want perpetrators to know Santa Rosa...
GREG LOWERY The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactio...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.
JOAN FRANCES CASEY Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from go...
MARK POSTER Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
LORD QUINTIN HOGG HAILSHAM This is a classic abuse of discretion. She ran every red light down equity lane.
BRUCE BROWN She could do this. She was stronger now. This was her chance to prove it.
TALENA WINTERS Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile.
JEANNE MCELVANEY I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal w...
ELIN STEBBINS WALDAL Sexual abuse is also a secret crime, one that usually has no witness. Shame and secrecy keep a child...
RENEE FREDRICKSON abuse of the process.
CHRIS DODD Terrorism is in good part an effect of government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from go...
MARK POSTER Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into ...
MICHAEL SALTER Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blog...
EVAN WILLIAMS I don't want to be charged with child abuse.
, SAYING HE DID NOT WANT TO GET INTO A WAR OF WORDS WITH VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significan...
DAVID SCHNEIDER Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
PETER DE VRIES Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF People have woken up to the fact that abuse of the environment is very serious. A long-term legacy o...
LAURENCE MEE Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it
is useless.
DECIMUS LABERIUS It's intimidation. The IRS has every right to audit nonprofit organizations, but we think this was a...
CRAIG MCDONALD Our goal is to stop abuse before it starts and break the cycle of abuse. We want to assist new paren...
FLORA JACKSON My view is that the false memory campaign is a spent force. It failed to realise its key goals, fail...
MICHAEL SALTER This abuse against this child needs to end and that means the abuse by the state of New Mexico in pr...
GARY MITCHELL The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more...
ALICE MILLER The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and th...
CHRISTIANE SANDERSON Abuse changes your life...Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on...
PATTY RASE HOPSON Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
INGA MUSCIO There is no light in the darkness of abuse.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH It has become fashionable in the last several years for the media to minimize and even dissemble abo...
CATHERINE GOULD Parental child abduction is child abuse.
CHRIS SMITH Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGES Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.
JOHN STEINBECK Manipulation and Abuse are brothers we do not want to be related too. They slip in like a pest and w...
ANITA DU PLESSIS The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fun...
DAVID BLUNKETT If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to...
AL ROKER Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the ...
STEVEN MAGEE We don't want to be complacent about drug an alcohol abuse.
JOE LUNA Use, don't abuse.
GRACE JONES This has long ceased to be just a scandal about sex abuse. It's a scandal about abuse of power and t...
TOM ROBERTS Pity is a benign form of abuse.
MICHAEL J. FOX My father told me abuse is generational.
GLENN BECK You’ve already done the hardest part; you survived the trauma. You are much stronger than you thin...
SARAH NEWMAN Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is ...
ANDREA DWORKIN If your salary is beyond your money handling capacity,abuse will be inevitable.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more po...
E. SUE BLUME There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...
STEPHEN KING To heal from child sexual abuse you must believe that you were a victim, that the abuse really did t...
ELLEN BASS The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN It's an issue of not wanting to punish someone who is a member of your family, even if that closenes...
DON STRASSBERG Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cau...
MICHAEL SALTER The abuse of cabmen in a block.
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