Quotes About Abuse

Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him in possession.

He figures that it makes a big man out of him to be passing and passing laws and rules. He thinks that makes him look more like a king. Long time ago he done passed all the laws that could do anybody good. So now he sits up and studies up laws to do hurt and harm, and we're the only folks in Egypt he got the nerve to put 'em on. He aims to keep us down so he'll always have somebody to wipe his feet on. He brags that him and the Egyptian nation is eating high on the hog now.

Whereupon Jim flopped into a chair and held forth at great length on the necessity of keeping wives in their places; to wit: speechless and expressionless in the presence of their lords and masters and cited several instances where men had met their downfall and utter ruin by ill advisedly permitting their wives to air their ignorance by talking. His audience, composed entirely of males, agreed with him. Wife-beaters are numberous in Poplar Street.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

I was an abused kid.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

The word 'change' has been abused so many times.

Have I ever abused a woman? Never.

The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.

If you're different in any way at school,then you're going to get a bit of abuse. You learn to deal with it in a way where people don't come back at you again.

When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.

A man can abuse his body a lot more than a woman can. And that's a fact.

Abuse is not love. That's no way to treat a woman.

It was so normal for me to have racial abuse spat at me and then when I moved to Dunfermline, there were a group of boys who made up a racist social media page geared at me.

I spend a lot of time on social media and people ask me if the abuse I get is upsetting, but working in comedy has built up my skin - I'm used to hecklers.

I grew up in a terrible home of abuse and I didn't realize I was in a home of abuse.

If anything happens to me, it wouldn't affect me like it would if my family had been abused.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.