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If we are to hope to correct our abuses of each other and of other races and of our land, and if our effort to correct these abuses is to be more than a political fad that will in the long run be only another form of abuse, then we are going to have to go far beyond public protest and political action. We are going to have to rebuild the substance and the integrity of private life in this country. We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibility that we have parceled out to the bureaus and the corporations and the specialists, and we are going to have to put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and households and neighborhoods...We need persons and households that do not have to wait upon organizations but can make necessary changes in themselves, on their own. – Wendell Berry	added by anonymous 11 years ago
In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute. – Rupert Sheldrake	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow. – Jack Parsons	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 12 years ago
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves. – Demosthenes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. – Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff. – Cicero	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless…We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action…No action. – Michael Jackson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag. – Zell Miller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops. – Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law? – Carl L. Becker	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) – George Will	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. – Mary Bertone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. – Edgar Watson Howe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it-not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it. – Nancy Davis Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. – Lincoln Steffens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! (24 December 1886) – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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