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Quotes About Abuse

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity is a benign form of abuse. You have to care about yourself and get other people involved.
~ Unknown
Letting someone else hurt you over and over again, is the same thing as hurting yourself. You're just letting someone else do the dirty work.
~ Unknown
Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.
~ Unknown
le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma».
~ Mario Benedetti
Los tiranos y los déspotas suelen tener la costumbre de torturar, invadir y asesinar. Hay
~ Mario Benedetti
People who were abused as children tend to get angry and strike out at the world. People who were neglected tend to feel defeated and withdraw from the world. People who were not given guidance tend to lack confidence and self-reliance. Each pathway leads to different forms of self-defeat.
~ Mark Goulston
The government has incredible powers at its disposal, and when it abuses those powers, someone has to stand up.
~ Mark Hertsgaard
But I've been drinking. Last time I mixed alcohol and Xanax, I went completely crazy.
~ Unknown
coercive redistribution of wealth through government's abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the purpose of the commonwealth.
~ Mark R. Levin
They self-righteously advocate public policies that obligate future generations' labor and resources to their own real and perceived benefit, empowering governmental abuse via social engineering and economic depredation. They disguise the delinquency as compassionate and premised on good intentions, often insisting their objectives will improve the prospects of those most severely burdened by them—"the children.
~ Mark R. Levin
Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!
~ Lena Dunham
I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."
~ Margaret Cho
He treats me like the dirt under my feet.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
If the goal is unknown, then abuse is inevitable
~ Sunday Adelaja
'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire.
~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
He was abusing the imbeciles' licence to do the unthinkable.
~ Unknown
Since physical escape is impossible, the child escapes mentally. She floats out of her body, imagining that somebody else is being raped or beaten, and turns off her emotions, saying, "This isn't happening to me.
~ Unknown
The psychological trauma created by the removal, combined with the neglect or abuse that preceded it, leaves the child forever changed and forever different from other children.
~ Unknown
Sociopaths are masterful at using other people's seemingly innocuous personal information against them.
~ Martha Stout
strong characters are often specially targeted by sociopaths.
~ Martha Stout
They comprise the single largest subgroup of domestic abusers: people who attempt to enhance their sense of power and control by beating up on spouses, children, and the elderly in the privacy of their homes. This is one of the reasons we find them so difficult to identify.
~ Martha Stout