Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices, crimes, or other types of aggression. To these descriptions, one can also add the Kantian notion of the wrongness of using another human being as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves. Some sources describe abuse as “socially constructed”, which means there may be more or less recognition of the suffering of a victim at different times and societies.
Abuse quotes:
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.
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It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
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People have a right to have their lives witnessed, if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
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More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.
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How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
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Sometimes a manuscript is like bread dough. You have to abuse it.
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Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
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Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.
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Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
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I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
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We've got to look at waste, fraud, and abuse across the board.
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The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.
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The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
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The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them.
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
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The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
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I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
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I'm interested in elder justice and what we can do about elder abuse and neglect.
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People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
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The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
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But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
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I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.
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Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
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We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
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I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
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When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn't possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range Rover into that parking space.
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Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
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I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.
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A brainy person does not abuse copyright, instead they respect it and uphold it.
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Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.
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I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.
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Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.
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We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.
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Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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Pity those who nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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The landlords are not agriculturists, that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
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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.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.
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Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.
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Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
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Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a thing, often to unfairly or improperly get benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices, crimes, or other types of aggression. To these descriptions, one can also increase the Kantian notion of the wrongness of using unusual human instinctive as means to an halt rather than as ends in themselves. Some sources describe abuse as “socially constructed”, which means there may be just about recognition of the trouble of a victim at different grow old and societies.