Abusive Quotes · Page 2

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology…

— Robin Quivers

One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should…

— Lundy Bancroft

Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her…

— Rufus Wainwright

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if…

— Lisa Snowdon

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

— Robert Pattinson

“I am thinking of becoming a cop because no matter how abusive you are, it seems to be a job for life!”

— Steven Magee

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from…

— Leigh Newman

While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive…

— Amy Goodman

I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing…

— Alan Dershowitz

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

— Jimmie Johnson

Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there…

— Robert Thurman

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Desmond Tutu

With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you…

— Jill Stein

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

— Glenn Beck

I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for…

— David Rakoff

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

— Jill Stein

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people…

— Damian Lewis

I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy…

— Marilyn Manson

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How…

— Sherman Alexie

The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as…

— Mona Charen

I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear…

— Vince Vaughn

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

— Lee Strobel

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly…

— Jane Mayer

The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task…

— Ralph Nader