Quotes About Abuse

I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

What Jack Randall had done to him had sunk into his soul as surely as the flails of the lash had sunk in his back, and had left scars every bit as permanent. I

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

I saw domestic violence my whole life.

All domestic violence stories break my heart.

The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

Power breeds responsibilities […] To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

The abuse of alcohol," Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, "is the one thing that puts Man above the animal.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet , I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.

That is how sin works. Having nothing in itself by which to convince, on what other resources but good and truth can it draw to make itself attractive and plausible? We must use the natural law to recognize the abuse of the natural law; there is nothing else to use.

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

God can fill in every gap with His great love. If you feel unloved, choose to receive the Father's affection; if you feel insecure, run into His strong arms; if you feel depressed because of abuse, remember that your heavenly Father was grieved when you were violated. And He can restore your broken heart.

The damage done through abuse is awful and heinous, but minor compared to the dynamics that distort the victim's relationship with God and rob her of the joy of loving and being loved by others.

He pursued a lifetime of abuse that could only come from a warped relationship with the future.

People exposed to emotional abuse as children have been found to be at higher risk of developing medical illnesses later in life,

their parents. Abuse is incompatible

leave people vulnerable to mental illness later in life. Recent studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), or brain scans, to discover specific changes in certain areas of what's called the hippocampus in the brains of young adults who have experienced abuse.