Quotes About Misuse

Love, even if it is caring and great in quantity, can be wasted.

The abuse of something good does not diminish the good itself.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

how the Clintons ripped off literally billions of dollars that had been donated to help those left alive after the devastating Haiti earthquake.

nothing in the world is entirely positive; every power can be misused. Love may lead to cruelty, science can create destruction, technology unchecked produces pollution. Optimal experience is a form of energy, and energy can be used either to help or to destroy.

Money is a neutral thing. It means that it can be the main source of your miseries or your happiness. In the wrong hands, it is only harmful, but beneficial in the right hands.

Maybe because there was a difference between the brutal but honest law of the wild, and cool, clear-eyed murder to increase the power of the very people most apt to misuse it.

How people pervert religious doctrine to serve their own needs.

To hold inventors liable for the misuse of their inventions is to indict progress itself. That's

Humanity's problem lies in the misuse of the mind only. All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly.

Humanity's problem lies in this misuse of the mind only. All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly.

Il conformismo, infine, che in nome della Civiltà (sic) consente agli ignoranti in malafede di alterare, falsare, sfruttare a proprio uso e consumo il significato del vocabolo «razzismo». Non ne conoscono neanche l'etimologia, i cialtroni. Non capiscono neanche che la parola «razzismo» deriva dalla parola «razza». Non sanno neanche che questa si riferisce a caratteristiche somatiche, affinità etniche, non a credi religiosi.

A poisonous pedagogy is a toxic method of teaching or raising a child. It is a method which controls the behavior of the child by the misuse of Power Over the child. This misuse of power causes the child extreme pain. If the child becomes an adult without having worked through the hurt and pain of the experience, he will perpetuate the misuse of power in adulthood. Consequently, the adult can become toxic or poisonous to others. This toxicity is what we find in abusive relationships.

Even a Marxist can misquote Scripture for his purpose.

She complained that because of Purdue's message about the drug being "good for whatever ails you," OxyContin was "creeping into a whole population of people where it doesn't belong.

Sounding a bit like Arthur Sackler when he dismissed the dangers of Valium, Romagosa asserted that fears of people becoming hooked on morphine had been overblown, because addiction "is a psychological malady" and only occurred when morphine was misused by "those who do not need it.

The Sacklers took the view that the same should go for OxyContin. To the degree that people are misusing the drug and overdosing, the blame lies with any number of potentially irresponsible parties—the prescribing doctor, the wholesaler, the pharmacist, the trafficker, the abuser, the addicted person—but not with the manufacturer. Not with Purdue. Much less the Sacklers.