Abuse Sayings & Quotes
These abuse sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity? [Strength to Love] - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. - Lord Oliver Cromwell
There is no doubt that the 'grail' of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of non-critical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97 percent of the time: premature optimisation is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth
It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless. - Decimus Laberius
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. - Epictetus
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke
When we try to bring about change in our societies, we are treated first with indifference, then with ridicule, then with abuse and then with oppression. And finally, the greatest challenge is thrown at us: we are treated with respect. This is the most dangerous stage. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge. - John A. Locke
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. [Country Town Sayings] - Edgar Watson 'Ed' Howe
Many oppressed people happen to be our oppressors. So how do we act? How are we to begin? I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision without being scared into wanting to retreat is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behaviour that is oppressive, naming abuse of power, that is held unfairly and must be destroyed, but naming no person one whom we are willing to destroy. - Barbara Deming
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our system. - Robert Frost
How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience? - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. - John Adams
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. - Jorge Luis Borges
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided. - Warren Earl
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. - Peter De Vries
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. - Voltaire
And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. - Samuel Johnson
The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it. - Jeremy Collier