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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."
"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."
"Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law."
"I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse."
"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
"Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory..."
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"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."
"I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?"
"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
"The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all."
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