Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don’t think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.
It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.
People think abuse is just for women. It must drive men absolutely insane because men get abused as well.
Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
Even if people threw tomatoes at me and booed me off stage, at least you can wash out tomatoes, unlike nine hours of abuse from the general public which can affect your mental health.
You don’t need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones.
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
I don’t need to be on any micro-blogging site, because people don’t think about what they say there. At times, people abuse, and it is too harsh for me to handle.
I’ve always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.
Power is a very peculiar thing. It’s like the ego. The ego’s only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.
When you’re in the public eye, it allows people to see you inhumanely. There’s this idea that you have to take the abuse. And when younger journalists, especially young female journalists, ask me how I handle social media, I hate myself when I have to tell them to condition themselves and develop a thick skin.
I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn’t meet any of them until 1993.
Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
It is imperative the government is held accountable to the people it represents and does not abuse its position in key areas of personal freedom and liberty.
Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
It is not only in India but even in the west you have these crazy shows like Jerry Springer’ where people come and abuse, they take off their clothes, do everything possible just to become famous and known.
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.
People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
The increased calls on law enforcement to respond to substance abuse and mental health issues in their communities have added pressure on law enforcement and highlight the need to also invest in our health system and social services.
By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.
Some of the world’s most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.
Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.
I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol… The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse Interpol they can just keep abusing Interpol and it doesn’t really matter how many times they do it.
Having diverse leadership means there are more voices in the room, and there are more different points of entry for people who are being bullied or abused at work. There are more points of entry for them to complain to.
The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common interest.
There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the abuses of the Bush administration. That was post-9/11, so I think there was a lot of fear at the time about exactly what that meant – were they unpatriotic if they stood up?
A lot of the problems we have in our criminal-justice system, you know, the problem of over-incarceration, the problem of prosecutorial abuse, the problem of just this sort of mass crop of people, of plea bargains, they all have to do with the system being overloaded. If crime was lower, many of the problems would go away.
Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should’ve been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.
The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of experiencing threats, abuse, and harassment by Muslim fanatics.
Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back – back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.
Trump needs the media to act the way they do so he can dunk on them and look good by comparison. The media are enjoying the short-term rush of their war with Trump, wearing his abuse as a badge of honor among their peers.
I think it is quite hard to be as angry and abusive face to face as it is online. But my fear is that as we get more and more normalised to abuse online, it will start spreading away from the screen.
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
I remember politicians in Northern Ireland were sometimes called ‘verbal incendiarists,’ as they didn’t actually do anything but they said certain things. So when you hear certain politicians using nasty language, that colours our lives. It makes some other people think it’s OK to racially abuse people.
The term ‘doctor’ has been so abused lately! I didn’t live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.
Any powerful technology can be abused.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
I used to sleep on floors and face racial abuse.
The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations. It is cruel, degrading, and inhumane and is effectively a ‘no touch’ torture.
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind.
Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don’t think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.
I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don’t abuse their power.
The U.N. must be a good steward of the funds entrusted to it. Abuse and waste are therefore not a mere public relations problem. Institutional reform is not a one-off event, like applying a fresh coat of paint.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships – in other words, in families – the last place we would want or expect to find violence.
My childhood had much clarity. I didn’t see abuse. I didn’t see my parents bickering. I didn’t live in a dysfunctional family.
