Abuse Quote by Carolyn Spring Download Open image ““society has an embarrassing history of denial”” — Carolyn Spring ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abuse Denial Denial-of-abuse History Holocaust Slave trade Slavery Slavery-quotes Society-denial Trauma
“Denial makes people repeat what they aren’t willing to acknowledge.” — Daniel Black Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may deny that… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Denial is the inevitable consequence of those who are presented with disastrous scenarios without being offered an avenue for success. That is why we… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
“Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even… — Stanley Cohen Copy Share Image
“Denial is a powerful human component that cannot be ignored in the context of psychological abuse. Ironic, right? Denial is the exact action of… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as children sometimes… — Sarah E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Denial is a powerful human component that cannot be ignored in the context of psychological abuse.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who did them… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't until 1984… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“No, my GP hadn’t ever heard of dissociative disorders and just wanted to prescribe medication, but I could still build a good, supportive relationship… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal gangs, which… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may deny that… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“Stand up for yourself. Never give any one permission to abuse you.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“Words are free. It does not mean you should abuse them. Be kind with them. They will mirror your actions.” — Hadinet Tekie Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life,… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
