Quotes About Abuse

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Online abuse has been a problem since the earliest days of the web.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

In Lithuania they had racially abused me, in Poland they hadn't paid me, and I thought: 'I don't need this.' I said to my family: 'I'm not playing football again.'

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

I was abused by certain political leaders even though the janta loved me.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse of the constitution by the government.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

I had five black eyes. I have a cracked rib. I have scars that are just amazing.

When I started at Portsmouth in 1974 there was a strong National Front element in the crowd and they would abuse me even though I played for their team. Racist abuse was part of the game and it was never challenged.

There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

We got such abuse on a daily basis. They were trying to harden us to the reality of the rock'n'roll world but how could we possibly know this wasn't the way it was supposed to be?

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

Because of how I walk and I talk, I get abuse on a daily basis.

What has struck me about the political world, as opposed to the business world, is that rational discourse has become all but impossible. All too often, arguments are conducted not on the basis of facts but on the basis of emotion - and, honestly, it is no fun being abused in the pages of tabloid newspapers or online.