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Quotes About Mistreatment

Im so sick of being treated like this...
~ Unknown
And the most common harm was bullying. Even decades later, hundreds of respondents deeply regretted mistreating their peers.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen - Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian - should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds.
~ Raymond Kethledge
My old dude f*cked up. My new boo lucked up. My ex tryna suck up. These dudes got me f*cked up.
~ Unknown
I am good enough person to forgive you. But not stupid enough to trust you again!
~ Unknown
If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place. Abusers interpret silence as approval, or at least as forgiveness. To abused women, meanwhile, the silence means that no one will help—just what her partner wants her to believe. Anyone who chooses to quietly look the other way therefore unwittingly becomes the abuser's ally.
~ Unknown
Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: "When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror." In other words, he becomes upset and accusatory when his partner exhibits the predictable effects of chronic mistreatment, and then he adds insult to injury by ridiculing her for feeling hurt by him. He even uses her emotional injuries as excuses to mistreat her further.
~ Unknown
If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.
~ Unknown
In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.
~ Unknown
Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.
~ Unknown
Tired of being stepped on, tired of being unappreciated and so f*cking tired of being disrespected by everyone.
~ Unknown
I hate being lied to I hate being ignored & I hate being used.
~ Unknown
I hate being played and taken advantage of.
~ Unknown
He treats me like the dirt under my feet.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts.
~ Unknown
think he got a bum rap.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
It was hard not to compare Mrs Elm to her mother, who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.
~ Matt Haig
who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.
~ Matt Haig
It stands to reason, however, that a child who has been abused, or who has been often threatened with the withdrawal of parental love—and unfortunately we are becoming increasingly aware of what a disturbing proportion of children in our culture are so mistreated—will be so worried about keeping his sense of self from coming apart as to have little energy left to pursue intrinsic rewards.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Socialism is the voice of the workers or employees against the mistreatment of their employers.
~ Unknown
Only a handful of states, it turns out, have not been determined to have systematically brutalized the youth in their care. A review of all fifty states found only eight where there was not conclusive evidence of system-wide mistreatment.
~ Unknown
The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real daughter did something that called for punishment....After each beating, the daughter, Lisa, would swear she had no clue how her mama got the mistaken notion that Paris was the one who'd smashed a favorite vase, or stained the kitchen tablecloth, or whatever. My name is Paris, not Stupid, Paris would say to herself.
~ Nikki Grimes
Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.
~ Paul Graham
Union Bank of Switzerland in 1999 by which the bank agreed to pay $1.25 billion into a fund administered by a U.S. District Court: $800 million for restitution of dormant bank accounts; $100 million for compensation for looted assets; and $325 million for payments to former slave laborers at Swiss-owned companies in occupied Europe or at German firms that had put their revenue in Swiss banks and for refugees mistreated by the Swiss.
~ Unknown