Abuse Quotes - Page 34

• Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.

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• We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.

  Radhanath Swami

  Pain, Confusion, Judging

  "The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami". Book by Radhanath Swami, 2009.

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• Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.

  Hoyt Axton

  Insane, Wells, Refuse

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• Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

  Richard Proenneke

  Hands, Feet, Sausage

  "Alone in the Wilderness" by Bob Swerer Productions, Part 2 DVD,

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• Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Mean, Rights, West

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Toxic

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• Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Verbal Abuse, Weak, Strikes

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Land, Impact

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Abuse of power comes as no surprise

  Jenny Holzer

  Surprise, Abuse Of Power

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

  John Fund

  Pain, Government, People

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• Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.

  Elf Sternberg

  Exercise, Lost

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• There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

  James Madison

  Evil, Growing, Corporations

  "Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations, Ecclesiastical Endowments". Essay by James Madison, 1817 - 1832.

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• Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.

  Joel Salatin

  Men, Animal, Vegetables

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• Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Important, Rama

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• I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

  Anne Heche

  Children, Memories, Thinking

  "Anne Heche Is Pregnant" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.

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• Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stronger, Attention, Growing

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• The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Challenges

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• The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Welfare, Unhappiness

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• Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Want

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• When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Waste, Willpower

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• Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Beholder

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• The abuse of power takes happiness away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse Of Power

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• Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Loses

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• If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Burned, Ifs

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• How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, People

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