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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Henry Labouchere

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

Saint Augustine

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

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 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

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

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

Jeremy Collier

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

John Adams

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

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

James Madison

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

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

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Herbert Ward

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Kenny Guinn

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

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

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