Quote by Malcolm Lowry

“To be defined by another is the worst form of abuse”

— Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban

“Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.”

— Adelyn Birch

“All abuse and violence are abominations against humanity!”

— Timothy Pina

“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or completely impaired.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good…

— John McGahern

“Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.”

— Mango Wodzak

“An abuser can be thought of not as a man who is a "deviant," but rather as one who learned his society's lessons too…

— Lundy Bancroft

“It was striking, the character of destruction. It was always diverse”

— Richard Ford

“How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy?”

— Elie Wiesel

“When we don’t honor ourselves, we are coming into agreement with the abuser’s toxic agenda. We end up abusing ourselves too.   While”

— Shannon Thomas

“I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those…

— Emily Bronte