“ The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory...
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Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.
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Verbal abuse is not a form on entertainment.
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words they'll destroy me.
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Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
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There is nobody so weak of invention that he cannot make up some little stories to vilify his enemy.
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The bitter clamour of two eager tongues.
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They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people.
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.
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Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.
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I guess name-calling is your only attack; because you're too weak to challenge me any other way.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
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I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
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I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
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Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.
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If verbal abuse had consequences, it would stop right now.
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