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Quotes About Abuse

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.
~ Joss Whedon
Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.
~ John Barrasso
Multinational companies exploit national differences to abuse their workers, to dodge their taxes and to 'regulation shop' as a means to avoid meeting their responsibilities.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Dominant companies can't abuse their position to create advantage in related markets.
~ Margrethe Vestager
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
~ Barney Frank
Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.
~ Kirsten Powers
Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
~ Alexander Pope
She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.
~ Tonya Harding
The Harvey Weinstein case showed us that Hollywood is rotten to the core.
~ Mike Cernovich
There are crimes occurring against senior citizens in this country that are horrendous, that we don't hear about.
~ Jeanine Pirro
My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.
~ Bart Millard
The term 'doctor' has been so abused lately! I didn't live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.
~ Drew Pinsky
If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, sometimes the cops don't know how far to take it. They have a hard job, but at the same time, I think it's just about educating yourself.
~ Corey Hawkins
We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol... The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse Interpol they can just keep abusing Interpol and it doesn't really matter how many times they do it.
~ Bill Browder
More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.
~ Jamal Khashoggi
Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction
~ Gillian Flynn
Throwing things near her but not exactly at her. I'm sure he told himself: I never hit her. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun. Don't make me turn this car around. Please, really, turn it around.
~ Gillian Flynn
He took away chunks of me with blasé swipes: my independence, my pride, my esteem. I gave, and he took and took. He Giving Treed me out of existence. That whore, he picked that little whore over me. He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime. According to me, at least.
~ Gillian Flynn
She is reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. A sci-fi girl. Abused women like escapism, of course.
~ Gillian Flynn
You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity
~ Gillian Flynn
Yet the Pennsylvania radicals continued to assault judges for their abuse of discretionary authority."Judges," the popular radicals contended in 1807,"very often discover that the law, as written, may be made to mean something which the legislature never thought of. The greatest part of their decisions are in fact, and in effect, making new laws.
~ Gordon S. Wood
He struck her so hard he broke her ribs and gave her scars for life.
~ Grace Norwich
Let's just say that I'm sensitive to all things rotten. Rotten movies. Rotten paintings. And, more than anything – rotten people . People who mistreat their children, never take their dogs for a decent walk, and yell at their wives for no reason.
~ Graham Masterton