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Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim. — Susan Forward
the victim. — Susan Forward
Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.
— Lundy Bancroft
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
Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.
— Kris Kidd
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
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
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
Unfortunately, there's no surefire way to prevent sexual assault.
— Jennifer Marsh
If you can abuse your power you have too much.
— Marty Rubin
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'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
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
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
"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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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