Quotes About Abuse

Officially, the British army did not permit rape; in practice, officers tolerated the abuse of women if the victims were not of their own class. Since upper-class women were employed in the quartering of officers, they enjoyed a minimal level of respect; lower-class females, on the other hand, received virtually no respect from the occupying army.

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

My 3-year-old daughter is somewhat psychic. I hate the abuse of that word, so let's just say... intuitive. She was born 'in the caul,' meaning my water never broke, and superstition says that makes a child psychic.

I was brought up in a football environment where we saw a lot of racism - whether it was abuse from other players or huge groups of supporters in away matches.

Making sure that due process could not be abused is at the heart of any conservative solution to the supposed red flag laws.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don't be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.

I remember going to stadiums and huge sections of the stand gave you racial abuse. It was never nice but it wasn't a surprise - particularly when I was first at Spurs.

Food, sex, drug, or alcohol addictions • Relationship failures • Abuse of any kind • Religious frustration and/or anger • Emotional detachment

we convince ourselves that we're getting affection when we're not. This is common with families and communities where abuse is prevalent. We don't always want to see that our actions (or those of our leaders or family members) are unkind and potentially abusive. We want so badly to be cared for and connected to someone that, rather than facing the pain and fear, we adjust our perception of love to fit the dysfunctional patterns.

When aggravated by continued abuse, powerful emotions of rebellion, anger, and hatred can come to life. These feelings are typically directed inward, and they impact the way that victims see others, life, and even God.

We all have the power to choose to forgive, and in doing so, we give back the painful wound to the one who is ultimately responsible—the abuser. We're then free to move on because we've removed a burden.

1. She couldn't count on anyone, not even God, to help her. 2. Something was wrong with her; otherwise, the abuse wouldn't have happened. 3. She had no control over her life (which led to the development of a victim mentality). 4. She was inadequate and didn't deserve good things.

We tend to treat violence and the abuse of power as though they fit into airtight categories: harassment, intimidation, threat, battery, rape, murder. But I realize now that what I was saying is: it's a slippery slope. That's why we need to address that slope, rather than compartmentalizing the varieties of misogyny and dealing with each separately. Doing so has meant fragmenting the picture, seeing the parts, not the whole.

One disturbing aspect of abuse and harassment is the idea that it's not the crime that's the betrayal but the testimony about the crime. You're not supposed to tell. Abusers often assume this privilege that demands the silence of the abused, that a nonreciprocal protection be in place. Others often impose it as well, portraying the victims as choosing to ruin a career or a family, as though the assailant did not make that choice himself.

One merely had to imagine a woman candidate doing what Trump did, from lying to leering, to understand what latitude masculinity possesses. No advanced step take by women has been so bitterly contested as that of speaking in public, Susan B. Anthony said in 1900. For nothing which they have attempted, not even to secure the suffrage, have they been so abused, condemned and antagonized. Or as Mary Beard put it last year, We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

So many men murder their partners and former partners that we have well over a thousand homicides of that kind a year—meaning that every three years the death toll tops 9/11's casualties, though no one declares a war on this particular kind of terror. (Another way to put it: the more than 11,766 corpses from domestic-violence homicides between 9/11 and 2012 exceed the number of deaths of victims on that day and all American soldiers killed in the "war on terror.")

The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants them to be different from what they were yesterday, no matter what else he's serving, he's always serving meaninglessness.