Abuse Quotes
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.
Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.
I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do.
If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.
The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.
Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.
From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.
Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.
Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media.
Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.
In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.
Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.
If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.
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.
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!