~ Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ~
~ The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ~
~ Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. ~
~ I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that
benefits from manure. ~
~ Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ~
~ Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ~
~ People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. ~
~ The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it. ~
~ Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ~
~ The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~
~ 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. ~
~ It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. ~