Abuse Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

— Richey Edwards

Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck in yourself

— Dan Post

“An abuser's behavior is primarily conscious – he acts deliberately rather than by accident or by losing control of himself – but the underlying…

— Lundy Bancroft

“Abusers like to target people who have something they do not or cannot possess themselves. Narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths are notorious for picking targets…

— Shannon Thomas

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

— Tara Westover

Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.

— Nirmala Srivastava

“psychological abusers damage others – not out of impaired judgement – but because they enjoy the control they gain from abusing people.”

— Shannon Thomas

When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is…

— Beverly Engel

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

— Tara Westover

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be…

— Sigmund Freud

“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the…

— Miguel Ruiz