Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks. – John Yoo
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse. – Maajid Nawaz
The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy. – Marquis de Lafayette
When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn’t possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range Rover into that parking space. – Lee Pearson
The government doesn’t really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I’d really heard about polygamists. – Jeanne Tripplehorn
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them. – Linus Torvalds
The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority. – Maajid Nawaz
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind’s most basic duty to protect the innocent. – James T. Walsh
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse. – Rachel Cusk
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren’t backed up by the authorities. – Ruud Gullit
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. – Richard Cobden
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do. – Roy Harper
Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. – Theresa May
Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children. – Sayed Kashua
Regulators are a backstop: they don’t own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. – Vince Cable
Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed. – Sean Brady