Abuse Quotes

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Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men. — Catharine MacKinnon
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to… — Unknown Author
Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell? — Richard Dawkins
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -… — Oprah Winfrey
Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively… — Beverly Engel
I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It… — Marq de Villiers
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. — Gautama Buddha
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives… — Plato
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally… — Richard D. Ryder
The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries… — Olara Otunnu
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and… — Gautama Buddha
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God. — J. Budziszewski
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for… — Ashly Lorenzana
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will… — Robert Goolrick
I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime… — Robert Goolrick
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to… — Gautama Buddha
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the… — Pat Robertson
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. — Herbert Hoover
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as the… — Nadine Strossen

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