Abuse Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abuse Books Dangerous Silence Writing
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We all need to feel free to express ourselves and vilifying us with abuse in an attempt to silence will not work. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get the help… — Chris Witty Copy Share Image
When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A lot of authors see their book being banned or challenged as a badge of honor. But for me, it's nothing but frustrating and… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break… — Chris Witty Copy Share Image
“Most people have no clue hidden abuse is taking place right under their noses. It is being perpetrated by individuals who would never be… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
