Abuse Quotes

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Because the symptoms of prescription drug abuse can be subtle at times, or even easily confused with typical teenage mood changes, putting off talking to your teen could be easy, but it would be a big mistake because with some pills, taking just one could be your child's last. I think even with one pill we aren't sure how it could have such a terrible impact on someone else.

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.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

When our leaders allow and even encourage abuse at the 'outer limits', America suffers. A nation that works to bring freedom and liberty to other parts of the world shouldn't stomach brutality and inhumanity within its ranks. This abuse of power was engineered and accepted at the highest levels of our government.

Every adult is required by law to report if they suspect child abuse or neglect. It's not just doctors and social workers and teachers. We're all responsible.

Alcohol abuse among older adults is something few want to talk about or deal with. Too often family members are ashamed of the problem and choose not to address it.

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

Child abuse is a problem no one really talks about. Abuse and neglect is the number 1 cause of injury to children in the country. More children die of abuse or neglect than of natural causes.

We're asking that they are not allowed to discriminate, harass, or abuse wards, based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex.

It addresses our national concern about child sex abuse and getting tough on child sex abusers.

Animal abuse is next to human abuse and I don't know why they think this is no big deal.

Not many networks like to make movies about child abuse, ... Most people cannot watch films about the subject. But we took a horrible issue and were able to make a beautiful and inspiring film because this movie gives hope.

The president has directed that detainees be treated humanely. The U.S. continues to aggressively investigate credible allegations of abuse and to hold individuals responsible for wrongdoing.

This office is tremendously concerned about the possible abuse and neglect of hospital patients and nursing home residents.

So far as we can determine from our records, these are the first allegations of sexual abuse against him.

This provision opens up the possibility for much more waste, fraud and abuse and offers no improvement in the government's ability to quickly assist the people who need it.

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

Felix has handled it all extremely well. He's kept his mouth shut, he's taken the abuse from the veterans, and he's gone out and done his job. It's been an abnormal amount of focus on someone who's a 19-year-old kid.

This bill places unprecedented limits on eminent domain abuse. The one glaring shortcoming is the temporary exceptions for Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but even that does not dampen the near total victory this bill provides.

It is cowardly to fly from a living enemy or to abuse a dead one.

Alcohol and drug abuse by miners threatens the safety of their colleagues, and that cannot be tolerated.

We're building a Huber center. We're going to build something for drug and alcohol abuse treatment. I'm saying let's look at the third leg of this stool, that stool can't stand without that third leg.

I've been taking a lot of abuse from my buddies who are Sox fans. The only thing that helps is we [the Cubs] split the series 3-3 [with the Sox].

Trafficking is a serious abuse of child rights and is seen as less risky than trafficking drugs.