Abuse Quotes · Page 22

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

— Princess Nokia

“The threatening tone, harsh aggression, made her submissive (Across Time And Space)”

— Mala Naidoo

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

— Jesse Jackson

People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.

— Kate Nash

…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 condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

— Ibrahim Hooper

“Most children don't know freedom, because their life is a never-ending debt to their parents.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

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

— Bill Murray

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of…

— Gloria Steinem

I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and…

— Eve Torres

If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just…

— Rishi Kapoor

“When they begin to feel that others don’t love them, they already consider their worth and consider that they are not worth…

— Patricia Dsouza

“I was lost in a void of perpetual darkness. Disconnected from myself. Turned inside out. No sign of life. Eventually, the darkness…

— B.G. Bowers

“It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never…

— Rona Jaffe

Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other…

— Frederick Lenz

Many of us have been hurt by others at some time. It is crucial not to internalize that abuse and let them…

— Senoraroy

My colleagues and I fought to increase the resources to address several things, like maternity, prenatal, and newborn care, and mental health…

— Martha McSally

When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan…

— Joel Houston

Depression is not an act. Bipolar isn't an excuse. Eating disorders aren't phases. Suicide isn't a cowards escape. Homosexuality isn't a disease.…

— Anonymous

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom…

— Ana Castillo

Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right…

— Rush Limbaugh

One of the things that can be helpful in terms of an explanation is to look at the ways in which cults…

— Sarah Edmondson

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there…

— Atifete Jahjaga

When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

They misuse and abuse you only until they are about to loose you.. Pitiful

— MLY AB

Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better as she falls to the ground?

— Patience

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

— Warren E. Burger

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

— Doug Ose

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

— Robbie Williams

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

— Patricia Wentworth

Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.

— Elf Sternberg

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

— Morgan Ortagus

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

— Tatum O'Neal

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

— Alan Greenspan

“As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

— Henry Fairlie

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

— Maggie Q

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

— Jeff Sessions