Quotes About Abuse

Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!

The truth is our disconnection with Earth translates into a kind of disrespect of the feminine. How far can you go in violating the mother that gave you life? As long as the feminine is diminished the connection between us and the Earth will always be underscored by a big question mark. We have abused the Earth so much that we don't know which direction to go. We must wonder about this increasing masculinity that is translated in terms of repeated violence or love of it.

It would be years before I understood that tenderness is the weapon used by the torturer to win over his victim.

So little knows Any but God alone to value right The good before him but perverts best things To worst abuse or to their meanest use.

To young mind, work seemed to be the price that was gladly paid for the privilege of living so closely with the earth. Work was a real conversation with the landscape. It was not an abuse or raiding of the landscape. It was amazing to learn how to work in this context.

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

I'm in an abusive relationship with life. It keeps beating the hell out of me and I'm too cowardly to leave it.

Everybody has their time here on earth, use it wisely and stay away from people who like to use and abuse you...

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

The most sweet hearted people are the most mistreated people...

Being upset is no reason for a man to put his hands on you.