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~ 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

~ 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

~ 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

~ There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure. ~

Henry Labouchere

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

Warren E. Burger

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

~ The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it. ~

Jeremy Collier

~ Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ~

Edgar Watson

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

James Madison

~ There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow. ~

Seneca

~ It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. ~

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

~ The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization. ~

Sir John Denham

~ Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves. ~

Don Miguel Ruiz

~ We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. ~

Marie de Sevigne

~ Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ~

Voltaire

~ Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. ~

James Madison

~ An argument derived from the abuse of a thing does not hold good against its use ~

Unknown

~ Adults with schizophrenia are not attractive in the way that an abandoned baby or an abused dog is. ~

Paula Sellmeyer

~ [Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group. ~

Ben Miller

~ There is nothing humorous about steroid abuse. I would think that the California Milk Processor Board and their advertising agency would know better regarding an issue that threatens America's youth. ~

Tim Brosnan

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

John Adams

~ Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. ~

Herbert Ward

~ Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do. ~

Tim Roth

~ Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable ~

Karen Adams

~ Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. ~

Matt Blunt

~ The consequences of your denial will be with you for a lifetime and will be passed down to the next generations. Break your Silence on Abuse! ~

Patty Rase Hopson

~ The only reason why child abuse is alive today, is because we as adults fail our children when we fail to listen to them. Listen to a child today! ~

Heather McClane

~ War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace ~

Queen Noor of Jordan

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