Abuse Quotes

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

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

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackery

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

Henry Labouchere

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.

James Baldwin

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

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

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

Samuel Johnson

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

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

Sir William Davenant

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.