Abuse Quotes

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. Its great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.

What I want to do with entitlements is to stop the fraud, waste and abuse.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

The strong were always eating the weak.

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Silence, too, can be torture.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.