Quotes About Abuse

Criminally negligent narcissists, child endangerers, child abusers, religious maniacs, and kleptoparasites, meaning they stole from their own descendants. These things happen.

In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up at systematically random intervals, from more than a day down to a quarter of an hour, so that the victim never knew when the next attack was coming, never felt safe. Life with Muriel, it seemed to Peter, had over the last seven or eight years turned into a decreasingly bearable version of that.

Violet remembered that slap; later her mother had called it a love tap, as if to further confuse love with pain.

But the damage has been done. He'd grown so detached during his early abuse that he'd felt like two separate beings. And one was dead. Rune had stifled the fire within himself for so long, he'd extinguished it. And yet his head thundered in his ears as he watched his voyeur melt into the crowd.

Animals will be slaughtered mercilessly. Children, women and the elderly will be neglected and abused.

In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

Sabías que México ocupa el primer lugar dentro de la OCDE en violencia física, abuso sexual y maltrato a menores de 14 años? ¡Qué lástima que en esto sí nos ganemos el primer lugar!

Según la ONUDD, somos el cuarto país a nivel mundial con mayor consumo de cocaína en estudiantes, sólo estamos superados por Guatemala, Estados Unidos y Chile.

Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder A form of DID that often involves over one hundred DID personality states and is likely to be the result of cult abuse or some other form of extreme sadistic abuse that extends over a long period and often involves multiple perpetrators.

He looked such an inoffensive chap, but then so did most of the men who turned up in front of her bench, guilty of the most brutal abuse.

in the book, refused to come with him. He grabbed her arm to pull her back. She struggled to get free, and in so doing pulled her arm out of its socket.

Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since independence have held it to account