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Quotes About Misuse

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
~ Charles Dickens
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
~ Philip K. Dick
As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.
~ Eric Schneiderman
I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.
~ Craig Johnson
It is ill arguing against anything from its misuse.
~ Walter Scott
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
~ Hans Kung
Most religions teach us to be good people. It's only what men can do with religions that make them bad.
~ Heather Graham
Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking....
~ Lemony Snicket
Guilt is the other side of compassion. Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an aware level with yourselves and other members of creaturehood, so that you could consciously control what was previously handled on a biological level alone. Guilt in that respect therefore has a strong natural basis, and when it is perverted, misused or misunderstood, it has that great terrifying energy of any runaway basic phenomenon.
~ Jane Roberts
I bridled strongly when Labour introduced their Right to Roam, fearing that it would be misused by the hard Left to stir up unnecessary trouble in the countryside. In fact, greater access to the uplands has been a very good thing.
~ Nicholas Soames
It is categorically untrue that Cambridge Analytica has never used Facebook data.
~ Christopher Wylie
The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.
~ Daniel H. Pink
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.
~ Emma Goldman
If we're not a good steward of what God gives us, he takes it away. I think that's what happened. I wasn't a good steward of the gift that he gave me in this line of work. I abused it, so he took it away.
~ Shawn Michaels
The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?
~ Timothy Garton Ash
You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die. All of these things are common practice, and all of that information is available for America.
~ Todd Akin
It always had occurred to me that drugs misuse was obviously a major driver of demand in the criminal justice system.
~ Crispin Blunt
I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
~ Anthony Braxton
The constant abuse of online activity must stop.
~ Joe Barton
Any apparent insurrection in the human body or mind against Emperor Soul, manifesting as disease or irrationality, is due to no disloyalty among the humble subjects, but stems from past or present misuse by man of his individuality or free will—given to him simultaneously with a soul, and revocable never. Identifying
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
God gave freedom to man, and man has misused that freedom; this is the cause of all suffering.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS FOR. GOODBYE
~ Dan Simmons
La proprietà di cui si abusa è spesso fonte di disgrazia.
~ Daniel Defoe
Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless.
~ China Mieville