Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

- Arundhati Roy

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

- Antoine Rivarol

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.

- Angie Stone

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

- Andy Dick

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

- Alison Goldfrapp

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.

- Alex Gibney

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

- Al Roker

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

It's hard to stop wars, and it's hard to stop the abuse of the planet and all of those things. I guess you just do what you can do and voice your concern.

- Alex Lifeson

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

- Alan Bennett

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

- Anthony Kiedis

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

- Anthony Bourdain

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

- Andrew Jackson

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

- Andrew Cuomo

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

- Andrew Cuomo

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

- Alexander Pope

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

- Albert Ellis

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.

- Alan Sugar

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

- Alan Greenspan