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~ Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses. ~

Muhammad

~ Never judge a philosophy by its abuse ~

Saint Augustine

~ Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ~

Jorge Luis Borges

~ The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own--even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being ~

Katherine Anne Porter

~ Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ~

Warren E. Burger

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

John Adams

~ The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ~

Edmund Burke

~ The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ~

Edmund Burke

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ Never judge a philosophy by its abuse ~

Saint Augustine

~ The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ~

Jorge Luis Borges

~ 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

~ Terrorism is in good part an effect of government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy ~

Mark Poster

~ Abuse changes your life...Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on Abuse! ~

Patty Rase Hopson

~ The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future ~

Marya Mannes

~ I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system ~

Marq de Villiers

~ 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. ~

Aldo Leopold

~ Fundamental Christian values include preserving one's own health, feeding the hungry, preventing animal abuse, and protecting the environment. Vegetarianism effectively promotes these values ~

STEPHEN R. KAUFMAN

~ The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administrationís duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. ~

Senator John Kerry

~ 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 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. ~

Leopold, Aldo

~ Fundamental Christian values include preserving one's own health, feeding the hungry, preventing animal abuse, and protecting the environment. Vegetarianism effectively promotes these values. ~

STEPHEN R. KAUFMAN

~ I saw everything from starvation and neglect to where dogs were chained to trees and had arrows shot through them and even cats set on fire. During my investigations, more times than not children or women living in the home had also been abused. ~

Barbara Leff

~ Instead of the kids starting to experiment at 13, if we can delay it a few years, the research indicates the kids have a much greater likelihood of not becoming abusers. ~

David Matthews

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

Charles Bradlaugh

~ Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. ~

Bobby Scott

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