The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
There's so much going on, with child abuse, not having the right relationships and being in abusive relationships, that play into her, and that energy was constantly in my body for a month. I was the lead character and it was very, very intense.
You can't abuse your body and you need to work hard on your weaknesses. Everyone likes to focus on the things they are good at. But when you focus on the things you are weak at, it makes you a much better athlete.
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.
I know I'm getting something out of it (counseling), Pat is getting something, even my daughter is getting something out of it. We don't like coming, but it is really helping, and it gives us some place to go together.
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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.
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is that it's the furthest thing from the party. There's the alcoholism and drug abuse that come because you're looking for that elusive 'thing,' and you don't know what it is or where it is. But you've got the money and the connections, and the choices are not always the healthiest.
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.
It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency. . . but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.