#abuse

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#any #gets #group #men #power

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#congress #dollars #exit #exit strategy #fraud

And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#dysfunction #dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #dysfunctional-relationship #family

You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#abusive-relationships #relationship-quotes #relationships #wisdom-quotes #wrong-relationships

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ↗

— Voltaire

#abuse #ever #excess #happy #man

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#authorities #backed #black #few #i

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#always #fear #had #i #natural

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#consider #criticism #expect #friends #them

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#children #crime #decreasing #down #environment