Abusive Quotes

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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

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.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

I truly believe the American consumer doesn’t want to buy products made under abusive conditions.

I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

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.

The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.

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.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

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.

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.