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Quotes About Misused

No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.
~ Ellen Ullman
Next to 'God', 'love' is the word most mangled in every language.
~ Richard Bach
spent his adult life concerned much more with the imperfections of American society than with America's place in the world. Books are misused when the reader lacks context.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.
~ Stephen King
The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One feels in fact, when talking to him, that one is dealing, not with the man himself, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like, which have taken hold of him. He is under a spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused and exploited. Having thus become a passive instrument, the fool will be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Informed consent is probably the most revolutionary, the most rudimentary, the most misunderstood and misused term in all of health law and bioethics.
~ John D. Lantos
I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.
~ Ron Howard
Next to 'God', 'love' is the word most mangled in every language.
~ Richard Bach
It cannot, however, be questioned that escapers such as Stangl (and for that matter Eichmann, certainly a "bigger fish" administratively if not morally) did in the final analysis receive important assistance from two organizations which – to put it very mildly – allowed themselves to be grievously misused in aiding the escapes of individuals so dreadfully implicated: the International Red Cross, and the Vatican.
~ Gitta Sereny
Whereas the unconscious colossus of real existence, subjectless capitalism, inflicts its destruction blindly, the deludedly rebellious subject is willing to see that destruction as its fulfillment, and, together with the biting cold it emits toward human beings misused as things, it also radiates the perverted love which, in the world of things, takes the place of love in its immediacy.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
~ Charles Dickens
If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
~ Richard Serra
I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.
~ Arthur Schwartz
no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused. 
~ Craig Johnson
Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.
~ Gary Zukav
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
~ Larry Flynt
God's will." It's a rubric, I fear, that can be, and is, so easily misunderstood and then misused, and so it ends up a greater source of harm than of help in people's lives, usually without them realizing that this is the case. This can happen in a variety of ways.
~ Unknown