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| Abuse Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We believe that men should appeal to the civil law for redress of all wrongs and grievances, where personal abuse is inflicted or the right of property or character infringed, where such laws exist as will protect the same; but we believe that all men are justified in defending themselves, their friends, and property, and the government, from the unlawful assaults and encroachments of all persons in times of exigency, where immediate appeal cannot be made to the laws, and relief afforded. | Doctrine And Covenants | |
| 2 | The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. | Burke | Edmund |
| 3 | When certain persons abuse us let us ask what kind of characters it is they admire. We shall often find this a most consolatory question. | Colton | Charles Caleb |
| 4 | It is the policy of sin to hate those we have abused. | Davenant | |
| 5 | Abuse of any one generally shows that he has marked traits of character.The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence. | Edwards | Tryon |
| 6 | It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. | Epictetus | |
| 7 | It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before. | Fitzgerald | F Scott |
| 8 | Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. | Goodrich | Samuel Griswold |
| 9 | Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author assilence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. | Johnson | |
| 10 | The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference betweenbeing bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. | Johnson | |
| 19 quotations on Abuse |



