#abuse

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#abuse #consumers #contributor #costs #goods

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#diminishing #earth #end #exploiting #future

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#children #often #silent #victims

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#apt #as far as #authority #carry #constant

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#nature #never #pity #those #who

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay. ↗

— Angie Stone

#advantage #because #feel #get #giving

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#decline #dose #double #like #sensibilities

All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form ↗

— The Cruxshadows

#animal-abuse #animal-right #cruelty #life

James “Knockout Jimmy” O’Brien, Granite Fall’s very own boxing legend—a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear “for protection.” My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging. ↗

— Kate Avelynn

#issues #new-adult #young-adult #new-adult

Then why don't I tell on him? If they don't, why don't I? Because. Because I am safe this way, silent unnoticed. ↗

— Thalia Chaltas

#young-adult #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction