Abuse Quotes

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no no...

i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like...

He pulls down one of my straps, slides his other hand in among the feathers, but it's no good, I lie...

Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that b...

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert the...

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a ...

That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she ...

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin...

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only ...

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is ...

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value w...

The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, p...

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to li...

Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital."I assumed Jo...

those glasses aren't for the sun they're for darkness, exclaims Rue. Sometimes when we harvest throu...

Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those un...

He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There...

The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in ...

What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care...

The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Sta...

They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tas...

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

To forget and to repress would be a good solution if there were no more to it than that. But repress...

The public forum is not, of course, the most helpful place to conduct a profitable confrontation wit...

Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time th...

He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can't believe it, she s...

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come...

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been...

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

To cope, he and his siblings – older and younger sisters, a younger brother - created a game called ...

In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitja...

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

Don't let strangers touch you." And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenag...

For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daught...

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be in...

Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with...

An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not ...

When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes cl...

Few of us enter romantic relationships able to receive love. We fall into romantic attachments doome...

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn...

Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one wa...

Love was always and only about good feeling. In early adolescence when we were whipped and told that...

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness ...

Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or c...

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abus...

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearmen...

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

It is she who has a hold on him. Doesn't she see how much he needs her? She has nothing to be afraid...

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over?...

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards s...

Don't you love your mother, dear?""I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity...

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've hel...

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's ...

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Oh, I know that she's disgusted,cause she's feeling so abused.She gets tired of the lust,but it's so...

Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is the...

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi...

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? Ther...

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up...

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

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

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses ...

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

Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny...

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSEThe Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994"Extend...