Abuse Quotes - Page 12

• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, Differences, Intimate Relationships

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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• ....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Responsibility, Pride, Vanity

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• I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart—they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Believe, Fall, Clothes

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• [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Liars, Kissing, Men

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, America, Rights

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• Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

  John Green

  Dedication, Drug, Jewelry

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Essence, Slavery, Humbug

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.310, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

  Deb Caletti

  Water, People, Domestic Violence

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Creativity, Compassion, Source

  Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.12, Laurel Leaf

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• If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.

  Mary Griffith

  Religious, Children, School

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• God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  Done, Want, Has Beens

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• We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

  Philip Roth

  Errors, Grace, Redemption

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Nov 21, 2016

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• I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

  Bob Dylan

  Love You, Long, Suffering

  Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

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• But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

  Jose Rizal

  Men, Evil, Degenerates

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• The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Self, Safety, Heartfelt

  "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Judging, Effort

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.50, Souvenir Press

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• But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

  Koren Zailckas

  College, Two, Alcohol

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.82, Penguin

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• But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Thinking, Feet

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Drug, Might

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.121, Dell

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• Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Simple, Dope

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All right. I will be a man about this…I’m so sorry Bets. I should have hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had no idea anyone would abuse you so, baby. I swear I’ll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!” – Andy “I really need to get that boy a girlfriend- or at least laid.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Girlfriend, Hurt

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• I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

  Edward Said

  Believe, Thinking, Issues

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

  Banksy

  Christmas, Lying, Years

  "Banksy wades into Catholic church sex abuse scandal with new sculpture" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

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• In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loyalty, Bullying, Average

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.39, Basic Books

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• Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

  Rachel Cohn

  Glasses, Should Have, House

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