Quotes About Misuse

T]he DSM alone does not establish standards. Physicians, other mental health workers, drug companies, advocacy groups, school systems, the courts, the Internet, and cable TV all get to vote on how the written word will actually be used and misused.

It went to show that no one knew, when they abandoned a thing, what misuses it would be put to later by others.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of 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.

There is no biological reason for sodomy. The body does not need it; society does not need it; in this sense it is not a sin involving the intemperate use of something good or morally neutral, nor is it a sin involving the misuse of such things. It is an act which by its nature frustrates the function of the organs of the body it employs.

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences

Lady Jessica ordered you to differentiate between the wolf and the dog, between ze'ed and ke'leb. By her definition a wolf is someone with power who misuses that power. However, between wolf and dog there is a dawn period when you cannot distinguish between them.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. —MUAD'DIB ON LAW FROM THE STILGAR COMMENTARY

Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill.

The word 'love' is a fucked up word that's been used and abused so much it no longer means shit. The same thing is true about 'beauty.' 'Beauty' doesn't mean anything anymore. Idots use the word, and look at what they use it for. Nothing! Anything! If you ever become educated, and I doubt if that will ever happen, you will have to understand that most of what you will learn is going to be just a lot of shit.

Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.

Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ? a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible. When foisted upon each generation anew, it renders us incapable of realizing just how much of our world has been unnecessarily ceded to a dark and barbarous past.

The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

Cruelty to own people for the interests of others raises the fire of revenge in the hearts of the victims, and any enemy can misuse them for every purpose. Seed love and harvest love.

When an Order misuses the Law in the context of Law and Order in a democratic state, it describes and pictures as fascism, racism, and majority dictatorship. Indeed, it mirrors the mindset of ruling power precisely.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

And we had made a nice misuse of that 'empiricism', we had created the world on the basis of it as a world of causes, as a world of will, as a world of spirit.

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

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.

Drugs: All drugs should be illegal, except for the drugs that are prescribed and administered to you in just ways, and no drugs should ever be misused, abused.

It was seen as a way of misusing life, of encroaching into areas where you should not. It was practiced only by certain types of people obsessed with power or money.