Quotes About Abuse

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.