Quotes About Abuse

I've come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there is now no limit to what we will do when we feel threatened.

The tragic loneliness black women consistently face as we stand before judgmental others—sometimes white, but sometimes black; sometimes male, but sometimes female—demands that we have some wisdom, experience, and some passion with which to combat this abuse.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning and are interpretable only at the level of 'Fuck You', so they can then elicit a perfectly predictable torrent of abuse in response. We've long ago reached that level.

If a man hits you once, he's probably going to hit you again, and again.

He cut you off from your family, your friends. He whittled your world right down, didn't he, and hammered at you to be grateful for it." He had, of course he had. She hadn't seen it happening because it was so gradual—until it was just her life.

Roarke is her everything, as she is his. It matters, I think, that these two people who came from abuse and viciousness found each other, helped make each other into better people. Love opened them to more.

When others, out of Jealousy, Mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on, I will practice accepting defeat And offering the victory to them.

It also creates a problematic reflection: If a villain is the person who knows the most and cares the least, then a hero is the person who cares too much without knowing anything. It makes every hero seem like Forrest Gump. But it's not the intelligence that people dislike; it's the dispassionate application of that intelligence. It's the calculation. It's someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse.

It's someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse.

I tell Marla about the woman in Dear Abby who married a handsome successful mortician and on their wedding night, he made her soak in a tub of ice water until her skin was freezing to the touch, and then he made her lie in bed completely still while he had intercourse with her cold inert body. The funny thing is this woman had done this as a newlywed, and gone on to do it for the next ten years of marriage and now she was writing to Dear Abby to ask if Abby thought it meant something.

parents often rationalized that somehow their kids must have done something to deserve the abuse.

He was just another user claiming the mantle of a Good Christian. Like so many of the world bullies and abusers, choosing to find shelter in the faith -- using their religiosity as both shield and sword.

He was just another user claiming the mantle of a "Good Christian." Like so many of the world's bullies and abusers, choosing to find shelter in the faith—using their religiosity as both shield and sword.)

You have to listen not just to a submissive's words and physical cues, but to the heart and soul that lie beneath. They are giving you a gift, and it's your responsibility to cherish rather than abuse it. It's not just an exchange of power, you see. It's an exchange of trust. You have to trust them as much as you ask them to trust you." "This

She didn't get a chance to demonstrate any of her skills—the man was just fucking her mouth, plain and simple.

Humility is as important for Dominants as for submissives, if not more so. We must always remember that the exchange of power is a gift and should never be abused.

That's not fair! Life's not fair, Kaspar. You know that. You had a slave for — how long? Twelve years. Did you treat him 'fairly'? No, of course not. You beat him when you were in a bad mood, because it made you feel better, and when you felt better you beat him some more.

The most painful part of beatings is the insult which they imply.

Raynor slapped her so hard her teeth rattled and eyes stung, but she refused to react except to say saucily, "You must have heard how I like foreplay." "I hope you like it a lot, because with your mouth, you'll be getting it nonstop." "Goody," she said dryly. "Because I so love a man who needs to prove his masculinity by beating on women. Do you hit children and kick cats, too?

The truth has been abused under every Communist regime, due to the fact that no higher authority or greater good is recognized than the state itself.

Denial of perpetration is simply not evidence that none has occurred, because even when there is physical evidence of abuse, sexual abusers of children may continue to deny that they did anything....The tactics of the false memory movement have shown remarkable parallels to those of sexual abusers who attempt to silence their victims, and I wonder why this is.

Rape is not a mistake! He did it on purpose, over and over again because he wanted to, because he off on it-

The weight in my pocket nudges my thigh, suddenly becomes my knife. I put my hand to its unforgiving outline and can't stop crying years of tears because if I don't stab my father with my weapon, then he is going to stab me with his.