Quotes About Abuse

Where did women get the idea that there's something wrong with them if they don't fight when a man hits them? If they're paralyzed with shock and disbelief? If they take time to react? Or if they decide not to react—that it's best to just wait it out?

the same people who'd ask an abused woman why she doesn't leave the city where her ex lives, leave the firm where he works, leave her friends and her family and her job and let him have the satisfaction of driving her out.

This was not a political party. It was an army. The purpose of the display, Lloyd figured, was to give them false authority. They wanted to look as if they had the right to close meetings and empty buildings, to burst into homes and offices and arrest people, to drag them to jails and camps and beat them up, interrogate and torture them, as the Brownshirts did in Germany under the Nazi regime so admired by Mosley and the Daily Mail's proprietor

They wanted to look as if they had the right to close meetings and empty buildings, to burst into homes and offices and arrest people, to drag them to jails and camps and beat them up, interrogate and torture them, as

Wynstan fumed throughout the long journey back to Shiring. He abused Degbert, yelled at tavern keepers, slapped maids, and whipped his horse mercilessly. The fact that he kept forgetting the simplest things made him

The arbitrary power of wicked men

rapists aren't really interested in sex. What they enjoy is having power over a woman, and dominating her, and scaring her, and hurting her. He picked someone who looked as if she would be easily frightened.

He was a good man, ma'am,' she said. 'Never raised a hand to me.' The Queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife.

She got to where she was tripping me and beating me to the floor.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

I think there's no question Comey abused power.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.