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No language exists that cannot be misused ... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — Carl Jung

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused. — Iris Apfel

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people. — Stephen King

Chances are given and taken, used and misused, but a chance never given is a chance never taken and a life never lived. — Joshua Smith

The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance. — Billy Graham

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. — Hans Kung

Responsive design is not a flawed methodology; it is only when it is misused and treated as an add-on instead of an overarching philosophy — Tom Barker

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody. — Maya Angelou

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.' — Jim Leach

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. — Rooney Mara

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. — Pete Seeger

You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused. — Ljupka Cvetanova

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused — Charles Dickens

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. — Herbert Spencer

Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's misused oppurtunities! — Charles Dickens

Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused. — David Shields

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. — Sigmund Freud

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. — Tommy Lasorda

The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong. — Pico Iyer

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. — B.R. Ambedkar

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had. — Walter Martin

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. — William Shakespeare

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused. — John Howard Griffin

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time. — Napoleon Hill

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible? — Jacques Maritain

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman. — Fanny Fern

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot. — Bill Walsh

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda. — Richard Dawkins

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow. — Octavia Butler

Coward is the most misused word in our society. — Doug Stanhope

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging. — Joyce Meyer

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused. — Aaron Swartz

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly. — Lisa Bevere

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake