Abusive Quotes - Page 7

• For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can also be a creepy guru/abusive therapist, too, so you have to be very careful. But it feels really important to me.

  Annie Baker

  Teacher, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy and I have finally gotten back to the point of being brothers and clicked back into the place where we really enjoy feeding off each other onstage like we did when we started out.

  Marilyn Manson

  Brother, Attitude, Self

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse, mine are words, his was action. This is what he has done to women. Never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women, so you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

  Donald Trump

  Done, Action, Clinton

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Absent parents aren't abusive per se. They're neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they do love their daughters and sons, but they're not parents in the way that we might think of it.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Daughter, Son, Thinking

  Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. March 16, 2017.

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• I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury is an abusive institution. I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't stretch and expand the criminal law. I'm not going to change it because you think these are abnormal times. When Thomas Jefferson told the Justice Department that they had to prosecute Aaron Burr, and that he was going to have the chief justice impeached unless he found Aaron Burr guilty, those were special times too.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Justice, Political

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Justice, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

  Leon Trotsky

  People, Disrespect, Legacy

  Leon Trotsky (1973). “Problems of everyday life, and other writings on culture & science”, Anchor Foundation

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• Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Self, People

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• When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hate, Men

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• The way things happen on social media is so abusive and everyone needs to take personal responsibility for what they write and not allowing this misinterpretation and shaming culture on social media to persist.

  Ashley Judd

  Responsibility, Writing, Media

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 20, 2015.

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• I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Editors, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.

  Alyson Stoner

  Summer, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Trends, Students

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.

  Lita Ford

  Play, People, Musical

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Ideas, Practice, Essentials

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and kill more animals in laboratories in the hopes of creating drugs to enable us to continue with our animal-abusive lifestyle! Few of us look to the future (i.e., to our parents and grandparents), see the effects of an omnivorous lifestyle, and opt out of it before it makes us sick.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Creating, Sick

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• To cultivate compassion, try to remember that others are doing the best they can, just like you, and that when someone does something abusive, they are getting something that they feel is positive from the experience.

  Sharon Gannon

  Compassion, Trying, Doe

  "Ask Sharon Gannon About Yoga & Veganism | Communication". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

  Edward Kennedy

  Average, Judging, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

  Jill Stein

  Sorry, People, Abusive Relationship

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you don't have a future in this political party. You know, what they did to Bernie Sanders is what they have done to every progressive candidate and every real progressive movement within the party. They allow it to show its face and then they use the kill switch.

  Jill Stein

  Sorry, Real, Party

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

  Donald Trump

  America, Want, Bills

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

  Rowan Atkinson

  Atheist, Fear, Teaching

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• We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.

  Kate Thornton

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

  Katie Holmes

  Religious, Money, Power

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• One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don't seem like abusers. They have many good qualities, including times of kindness, warmth, and humor, especially in the early period of a relationship. An abuser's friends may think the world of him. He may have a successful work life and have no problems with drugs or alcohol. He may simply not fit anyone's image of a cruel or intimidating person. So when a woman feels her relationship spinning out of control, it is unlikely to occur to her that her partner is an abuser.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Kindness, Successful, Men

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