Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Charles de Secondat

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

John Sculley

I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.

Louie Anderson

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

Leopoldo Lopez

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Samuel Freeman Miller

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

Missy Elliott

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

John Adams

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Alan Greenspan

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

David Elkind

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

John Bercow

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

Jimmy Cliff

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

E. W. Howe

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Charles Bradlaugh

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Daniel Baldwin

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

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

Tatum O'Neal

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

Andrew Cuomo

Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

Auliq Ice

There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

Basmah bint Saud