Quotes About Abuse
il la tuait de ses caresses, après l'avoir rouée de coups.
~ Émile Zola
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an ideal relationship, the balance of power is equal. But if someone has to have more power, that someone needs to be the woman. Her reasoning is that when most men wield the power, they abuse it and succumb to their innately self-serving, self-indulgent instincts. Women who have power, on the other hand, tend to rule in the interest of the family unit rather than their own self-interest. Which is why matriarchal societies are peaceful, harmonious ones.
~ Emily Giffin
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What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? [29] Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective? If, however, he has his victim's weakness to exploit, then his efforts are worth his while.
~ Epictetus
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Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
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They . . . had been slugging it out like Rihanna and Chris Brown on repeat . . .
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
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You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.
~ Erica Jong
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Non è necessario picchiare le donne se si riesce a farle sentire in colpa.
~ Erica Jong
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And…." Oh! Kelly's boy was crying. Crying so hard he couldn't breathe. Crying so hard he could barely talk! Kelly's arms were sprained at the shoulders, because two guys had held them behind him and he'd struggled, oh, he'd struggled so fucking hard. Carefully he raised his hand to cup Seth's cheek and saw the bruises, then felt his stomach go cold. "Seth? Seth… mijo. What did you do?
~ Amy Lane
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Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as true what is only either a temporary phenomenon or a hypothesis, when it's not a blatant untruth; and to the extent that it prevents children from forming in good time their own opinions by creasing into them certain habits that make their freedom of judgement an illusion
~ Andre Breton
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I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language.
~ Andrea Boeshaar
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I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this.
~ Andrea Portes
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People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
~ Jason Statham
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I like carbs and I like junk food, and I don't gain any weight from them, so I've been slightly abusive of my body because of this.
~ Carole Radziwill
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I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.
~ Sinead O'Connor
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The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
~ Jeanne Tripplehorn
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How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
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I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
~ Alanis Morissette
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In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The West has a better understanding of what the word sexual abuse or harassment means. There are some concepts that they understand way better.
~ Shraddha Srinath
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As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.
~ Zephyr Teachout
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We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
~ Leopoldo Lopez
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The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
~ David Blunkett
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Over the years, countless people throughout South Jersey have shared with me that they are constantly harassed by robocalls and scams. Members of Congress have a responsibility to hold scammers responsible for their abusive practices and protect the American people from this abuse.
~ Jeff Van Drew
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The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
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