Top 100 Abused Quotes
#1. Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
Daniel Defoe
#2. Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
Barry Ritholtz
#3. Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art ...
Robert Frost
#4. Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
Bill Willingham
#5. America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.
Dan J. Stein
#6. The will of the nation is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#8. I'm overreacting, probably," Sophie says. "I just get a little bored with the abused-women-equals-art thing. It just all seems a bit eighties to me. Do you know what I mean?
Nick Alexander
#9. I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen
Joyce Meyer
#10. Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
Harry Browne
#11. Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.
Bryant McGill
#12. There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim ...
Gertrude Kasebier
#13. The Nazi leaders ... .treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored
Sebastian Haffner
#14. Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.
Gyles Brandreth
#15. The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.
Alice Miller
#16. Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.
Chester Brown
#17. My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country
Doctor, that is a different case.
Andrew Jackson
#18. Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.
Catharine MacKinnon
#19. Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
Catherine Deneuve
#20. People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.
Michael Jackson
#21. We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
Satish Kumar
#22. All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
James Madison
#23. I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.
Jermain Defoe
#24. Boo was asking him who the hell he thought he was and also could he spare a few kitty treats for a poor, abused house cat?
Kristen Ashley
#25. Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.
Nick Davies
#26. Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans - and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas - than quantum mechanics.
Sean Carroll
#27. Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
Ellen G. White
#28. You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#29. When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.
Patrick Califia
#30. My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
Anthony Kiedis
#31. For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.
Pope Francis
#32. In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.
Edward Bernays
#33. It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.
Joe Biden
#34. Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.
Stephen Richards
#35. It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
William Davenant
#36. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#37. Too many cases thrown out of court, too much pop-psycho crap, satanic bullshit ... if you FEEL you've been abused, you HAVE been!
Jonathan Kellerman
#38. I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.
Tre Cool
#39. By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Sextus Propertius
#40. I'm 80% done with The Darker Side of Trey : It was a pitiful truth. That people seemed unwilling to see the abused, even when they were right in front of them, silently screaming for help. I know, because everyone had done it to me, time and again
Tara Spears
#41. This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Euripides
#42. Language is power that gets abused all the time, Robin, but we've got real enemies out there somewhere and until they're out of the picture, I won't get knotted up over people who don't get all the words right. It's a waste of energy.
Tim Eldred
#43. There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Beck
#44. What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music
reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#45. Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.
Mark Driscoll
#46. I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.
Lindsay Lohan
#47. Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#48. But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
Mercedes Ruehl
#49. Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.
Theodore Kaczynski
#50. I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.
Pamela Anderson
#51. Lawyers for abused kids can challenge bad agency decisions because they can always bring a lawsuit. A volunteer cannot.#barahona
Andrew Vachss
#52. I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.
Robin Quivers
#53. An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.
Bell Hooks
#54. Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
Thomas Jefferson
#55. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps
William J. Clinton
#56. I'm like an abused puppy, so desperate for attention that it's almost a surprise when I get belted in the gut.
Again.
Talia Vance
#57. I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.
Toni Morrison
#58. I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.
Tyler Perry
#59. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.
William Shakespeare
#60. Willem had tried to approach the subject through various directions - through stories of friends and acquaintances, some named, some not (he had to assume some of these people were creations, as surely no one person could have such a vast collection of sexually abused friends).
Hanya Yanagihara
#61. I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.
Michael Arrington
#62. I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.
Jay Gould
#63. I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
Jamie Farr
#65. One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
Cheryl James
#66. Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
Ned Vizzini
#67. I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.
Sebastian Thrun
#68. My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
Anne Lamott
#69. A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#70. I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt so good. It was justice, girl. The fucking law never gave a shit about a victim, but justice is all heart.
Cedric Nye
#71. Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.
Matt Rees
#72. I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
Maya Angelou
#73. Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
John Galt
#74. Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.
Andrew Weil
#75. My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.
Mark Shields
#76. Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.
Claire LaZebnik
#78. I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.
Jason Calacanis
#79. It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.
Morris Dees
#80. Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.
Kristen Stewart
#81. The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.
Nicky Hager
#82. I was eighteen years old, and I thought I loved him. I should have known, but I didn't.
And I don't deserve to be abused for it. Judged for it. Called names.
I don't deserve to have my life ruined.
Robin York
#83. Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.
Lubna Olayan
#84. I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
Randeep Hooda
#85. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst ... They are for nothing but to inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. Reaching was a dangerous thing: it indicated longing. Longing was dangerous because it indicated need. Need was exploited, need was abused, need was someone else's power over what they could touch.
Enee N. Altson
#87. I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.
Motsoko Pheko
#88. Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation.
Thiruman Archunan
#89. The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.
Dorianne Laux
#90. The grudge was fundamental. Perhaps he could not have given it up if he tried. Perhaps he got more satisfaction out of feeling himself abused that he would have got out of being loved.
Willa Cather
#91. I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."
Margaret Cho
#92. Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
Tim Roth
#93. There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
Dora Russell
#94. It's like every day is the worst day of your life. And you're trapped and you're scared and you have to portray those emotions in every take and really take yourself to those places. (about her role as an abused wife in ENOUGH.
Jennifer Lopez
#95. A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason
Lucinda Brant
#96. I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.
Sylvester Stallone
#97. Authority - when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats - makes people shut down & productivity ceases.
John Stoker
#98. Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
Havelock Ellis
#99. People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.
Jane Goodall
#100. Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.
Maya Angelou
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