Abuse quotations

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◆ A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

- Jack London99

◆ stars are the scars of the universe

- Ricky Maye99

◆ Suffering teaches joy.

- Sonia Rumzi99

◆ Silence, too, can be torture.

- Justina Chen99

◆ Don't play his game. Play yours.

- Rachel Caine99

◆ To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.

- Flora Jessop99

◆ Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

- Laura Davis99

◆ To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

- Tacitus99

◆ At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

- Banksy99

◆ The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

- Thomas Harris99

◆ I've been bullied. I've been knocked down to my lowest. I've been beat up. I've gone unnoticed. But not once did I ever wish it hadn't happened, their bullshit gave me a strong boost of satisfaction.

- Jade Surette99