Quotes About Abuse

Jesus] protected what was valuable and didn't allow himself to be disrespected and abused until doing so had a divine purpose at his crucifixion.

Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm. If assaults on dignity are anything but random in distribution or course, whose interests are served by the suggestion that they are haphazard?

Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old, towards their activities, and into (or against) their institutions; and the old foster, teach, train, exploit and abuse the young. Even neglect of the young, except physical neglect, has an educational effect -- not the worst possible.

She was the sadistic older brother who holds you down and slaps your forehead over and over again, lets a string of spit fall until it almost hits your face and then slurps it up, over and over again. Only this older brother was fucking me. I'm telling mom.

People in power—police, politicians—believe they can get away with murder.

It was true that she had been passed from hand to hand as often as were the prostitutes in brothels, so why should they treat her otherwise?

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

he treated her with anger, disrespect, and disdain, to punish her for her success.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

it is the political institutions of a nation that determine the ability of citizens to control politicians and influence how they behave. This in turn determines whether politicians are agents of the citizens, albeit imperfect, or are able to abuse the power entrusted to them, or that they have usurped, to amass their own fortunes and to pursue their own agendas, ones detrimental to those of the citizens.

but it also meant that there were checks within Parliament against any single group becoming too powerful and abusing its power. It was the critical factor in the emergence of pluralistic political institutions.

You know your problem?" I snap at Shark. "You use too many metaphors. Ants, fish, and rabbits, all in the same breath. That's an abuse of the language." Shark smiles. "I never

Pius XII was known for his outspoken warnings to the faithful against the abuse of human rights,19 yet he was silent about the Holocaust. He never spoke a public word against Hitler's systematic extermination of the Jews, because to do so would have condemned his own Church for its similar deeds. This silence, historians agree, encouraged Hitler and added to the unspeakable genocide.

That day I wished Mother would have mercy and kill me quickly. As

day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me.

That day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me. In

Of all Mother's punishments, I hated the gas chamber game the most. Towards

He would beat the shit out of me for the slightest thing. But it wasn't the fist or the belt that hurt the most." "It was the words," said Reel.

That's good to hear, Billy. Kids have enough shit to deal with without somebody who is supposed to love them beating the crap out of them.

People with power and means would always take advantage of those without them.