Quotes About Abuse

When emotional abuse is mutual, it becomes a matter of survival (..) each partner becomes less and less self-assured, each clings to the relationship even more. A destructive cycle is created—even as the relationship becomes more and more abusive, each person becomes more dependent (..).

The child who hates the parent becomes rigid—unable to let in love. He is so filled with shame that he feels that he cannot take in any further shame. He protects himself by making sure he is always "right." Such a person often becomes controlling, shaming, and/or abusive.

The greatest sin a man or woman can commit is the abuse of power.

No one should be forced to stay with their abuser because they don't have the resources to leave.

Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?

I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

He let the boy run about for a week until he began stumbling and hurting himself, and then he shut him in an attic room across the hall from his mother's. The way they screamed at each other from behind their locked doors was very terrible, especially to little Merwin, who fancied they talked in some terrible language that was not of earth.

I can't quite count the ways in which we hurt one another. It was the means by which we tried to help one another—me, turning her into a patient, her, turning me into a dull authority—which were as bad as, if not worse, than our actual abuses.

A monster is someone who's being monstered.

Nothing ever really changes. Kids still get beaten up by their own parents and allow themselves to be tricked into believing lies." "And then along comes someone like you, who opens his heart to all those people who've been caught by the lie.

Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of factual reality, from which the ideologies originally derived their strength and their propaganda value—the reality of class struggle, for instance, or the interest conflicts between Jews and their neighbors—have all but disappeared.

Sometimes "concern" is the foot someone jams in the door so you can't close it against condescension, presumption, invasiveness, and, at times, outright abuse.

Everything," she said. Her mouth tightened. "Stewart Green was a psychopath. He stalked me. He beat me. He threatened to kill me." "Why?" "What part of the word 'psychopath' confused you?

Part of all worship is abuse. That's what I've learned. Those who love God the most also fear God the most too. 'God-fearing,' right? The most devout who won't shut up about God's love are always the ones raving about fire and brimstone and eternal damnation.

Mumbai has so much to offer, but the pathetic spectacle of horse abuse is the first thing that many tourists see, and it taints their impression of our great city.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, mostly 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.