Quotes about Abuse

Clergyman, Inventor, Inventor

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Abuse - Animals - Character - Ethics - Evolution - Goals - Honesty - Humane - Integrity - Life - Peace - Right - Savagery - Vegan - Vegetarian - Violence - Virtue

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Edmund Burke

Statesman, Philosopher

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

Abuse - Advantage - Countries - Interest - Man - Mankind - Peace - Principle - War

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

Abuse - Advantage - Conspiracy - Discovery - Economy - Force - Manipulation - Trouble - Week - Winning

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Abuse - Exploitation - Individual - Selfishness

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

Abuse - Children - Conditioning - Education - Growing - Manifestation - Suffering - Tendency - Thinking

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

Abuse - Arguing - Children - Crime - Facts - People - Satan

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Abuse - Law - Opinion - Philosophy

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Alan Greenspan

Economist, Former Chair of the US Federal Reserve

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Abuse - Fraud - Information - Loan - Simple - Vulnerability

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Albert Ellis

Psychologist, Developer of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Abuse - Choice - Sexuality

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Abuse - Correcting - Demanding - Implementation - Judging - Love - Politics - Reckless

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

Abuse - Accept - Man - Refuse - Someday - Wisdom

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James A. Garfield

Clergyman, President, 20th U.S. President

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

Abuse - Honor - Man - Mindset - Wisdom

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.

Abuse - Anxiety - Difficulty - Existence - Follower - Frustration - Individual - Making - Misery - Movement - Oneself - Promise - Society - Whole

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Jesse Jackson

Civil Rights Activist, Clergyman, Politician

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Abuse - Law - Lifestyle - Protecting - Right - Threat

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Aldo Leopold

Author, Philosopher, Ecologist, Forester, Conservationist, Environmentalist

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Abuse - Belonging - Conservation - Ecology - Environment - Nature - Pollution - Respect - Sustainable - Wild

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Aldo Leopold

Author, Philosopher, Ecologist, Forester, Conservationist, Environmentalist

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Abuse - Beginner - Belonging - Love - Respect

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.

Abuse - Answers - Crying - Frustration - Jobs - Judging - Linguistics - People - Poverty - Refuse

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James Monroe

Economist, President, 5th U.S. President

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

Abuse - Attacking - Defense - Individual - Making - Nations - Necessity - Obligations - Oneself - Power - Right - Sacred - Strength

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

Abuse - Habit - Harshness - Meditation - Relaxing

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