Abusive Quotes

• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sentimental

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• I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

  William Trevor

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Motherhood

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sympathy, Children, Cancer

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Selfish, Evil

  "Lee Strobel Probes 'Why?' During First Sunday Service After Colorado Shooting" by Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Mother Daughter, Play, Scripts

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• The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

  Gary Chapman

  Thinking, People, Childhood

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Call Me, Temper

  "Tatum O'Neal shares survival story". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2014.

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• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

  Ron Franscell

  Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

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• I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.

  Timothy Hutton

  Girlfriend, People, Guy

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• As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Feminist, Feminism, Revolution

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

  Peter Jurasik

  Fun, Nice, Kids

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

  Casey Affleck

  Dog, Couple, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

  Missy Elliot

  Father, Struggle, Home

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• Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

  Jane Mayer

  Beauty, Thinking, Doctors

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Growing Up, Men, Comfort

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• It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Relationship, Giving, Credit

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• I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

  Janice Dickinson

  Father, Home, Boys

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• If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

  Alexis Herman

  Children, Fundamentals, March

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• Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Abusive Relationship, Wells, Humans

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• I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Stuff, Saws

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• A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

  Andrew Vachss

  Children, Home, Kids

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• In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.

  Rene Marie

  Men, Leaving, Abuse

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Witty, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 40 (1813)

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• There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, People, Laughing

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• There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

  Adam Duritz

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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