Quotes of: Abuse Keyword

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

James Madison

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Mitch Daniels

The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.

Sarah Harrison

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.

Betty White

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

Janice Dickinson

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Mary Frances Berry

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

Patty Hearst

I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.

Kevin Spacey

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Diane Watson

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Esme Bianco

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.

Beeban Kidron

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

Gerald McRaney

[Looking at psychiatrist's ink blot, remembering his abusive mother] Rorschach: Some nice flowers.

Watchmen

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Joss Whedon

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Zac Goldsmith

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

Fred Durst

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Anthony Kiedis

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis