Abuse Quotes

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim. — Susan Forward

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse. — Lundy Bancroft

I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me. — Sonya Huber

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. — Neal Stephenson

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all. — Asa Don Brown

Every institution goes through three stages utility, privilege, and abuse. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. — John Quincy Adams

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse. — Stefan Molyneux

Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip. — Kris Kidd

Be A Hero For A Better World ... Stand Up And Help Stop Abuse Today! — Timothy Pina

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 to know trees fear man. — Alice Walker

YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left. — Prince

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse. — Eugene H. Peterson

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like. — Sinead O'Connor

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil. — Stefan Molyneux

Ana was a perpetual victim in a never-ending search for a victimizer. — Travis Luedke

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses. — Glenn Greenwald

Abused patience turns to fury. — Thomas Fuller

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a person into someone who is, by most accounts, evil. — Kiera Cass

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all. — Teddy Wayne

Unfortunately, there's no surefire way to prevent sexual assault. — Jennifer Marsh

If you can abuse your power you have too much. — Marty Rubin

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. — Stefan Molyneux

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it. — Peter F. Hamilton

I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought! — Stephen Richards

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed. — Bryant McGill

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself. — Cheryl Rainfield

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. — Samuel Johnson

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse. — Lynn Swann

I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter. — JenniferElizabeth Austin

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday. — Stephen Richards

A horrible end is better than endless horror. — Oliver Markus

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using. — Jack Campbell

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances. — Leigh Steinberg

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur. — Steve-O

I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive. — Rosamund Hodge

I hope you see what you've done to me. — Matthew Little

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! — Simon Pegg

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you. — C. Kennedy

Love and abuse cannot co-exist. — Bell Hooks

He was six years old this time, and ancient. — Red Tash

But the ways we abuse a thing do not negate the value of that thing. — Matt Chandler

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Make that cage golden, it's still a fucking cage."
"Wel , in the absence of other options, gold will have to do. — Aleksandr Voinov

Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal. — Shannon L. Alder

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret. — Chris Witty

The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship. — Shannon Celebi

Mere abuse is no criticism. — P.G. Wodehouse

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return. — Betty White

With affluence come the debased gifts born of abuse, misuse, and overuse. — John Zande

Hands Should Never Be Used To Hit, Hurt or Abuse Anyone. They Should Always Be Used To Help Better our World Instead! — Timothy Pina

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. — Nick Bostrom

Domestic abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is the systematic suffocation of another person's spirit. — Joanna Hunter

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion. — Adeline Yen Mah

A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy. — Nenia Campbell

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse. — John Green

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. — Anne Wilson Schaef

To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks. — Jeremy Corbyn

Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy. — Adelyn Birch

We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence. — Asa Don Brown

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world. — Diane Watson

He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea

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. — Alan Keyes

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel. — L. Tobin

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. — Sathya Sai Baba

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil. — Hannah More

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change. — Allen Wheelis

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself. — Jennifer Brown

There is life after abuse. This is mine. — Lindsay Fischer

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson

Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship. — Asa Don Brown

...There is no worse way to abuse a man's patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land... — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise. — George Orwell

When I ask you who you are, you'd better say my fucking name. — Alicen Grey

C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff! — Daniel Clowes

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. — Wendell Berry

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. — Thomas Jefferson

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. — Asa Don Brown

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent. — Dave Pelzer

I am a whole person and have the potential to bring together all the different aspects of myself. — Maureen Brady

She's hiding and no one else sees. She's dying and no one else notices. — J.R. Johansson

Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That's agribusiness. — Anonymous

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Those.. we use to abuse in front of others..
somewhere deep inside.. we wish to be like them.. — Lovely Goyal

Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse. — Cynthia Hand

I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender. — Maureen Brady

A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care. — Bryant McGill

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

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander. — Louise Penny

It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time. — Asa Don Brown

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. — Tacitus

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. — Mary Frances Berry

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them. — Donna Lynn Hope

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ... — Asa Don Brown