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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. -- Wyndham Lewis
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. -- Martin Luther
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. -- Andrew Vachss
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. -- Kevyn Aucoin
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. -- Missy Elliot
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
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
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, oneâ??s own and that of other people. -- Leon Trotsky
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
We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. -- Vince Vaughn
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too. -- Barbara Kruger
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
I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans. -- Barack Obama
There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger. -- Pranab Mukherjee
Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive. -- Harry Reid
Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution. -- Dov Davidoff
The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive. -- Rainbow Rowell
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. -- S. E. Hinton
An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively. -- Joe Biden
I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people. -- Ellen Greene
The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is. -- Jimmie Johnson
I truly believe the American consumer doesn't want to buy products made under abusive conditions. -- Phil Knight
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish. -- Mason Cooley
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not. -- Kara Walker
An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end. -- Desmond Tutu
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords. -- Nydia Velazquez
My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive, -- Jenna Miscavige Hill
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt. -- Samantha Power
My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue. -- Heather Mills
I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser. -- Jill Stein
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines. -- Glenn Beck
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. -- Missy Elliot
An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior. -- Adam Ostrow
Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen. -- John Ortberg
Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic. -- Cory Duchesne
Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners. -- Kate Thornton
I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience. -- Louie Anderson
In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy. -- Frederick Lenz
I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy. -- Louie Anderson
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
I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling. -- Pam Grier
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. -- Tiffany Madison
One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free. -- David Frum
I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown. -- Marc Maron
Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: â??When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror. -- Lundy Bancroft
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
The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong. -- Edward T Welch
The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive. -- Flea
The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back. -- Kerry Washington
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
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go. -- Steve Pavlina
It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger. -- Rene Marie
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. -- Edmund Burke
The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father. -- Noel Fisher
When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever. -- Reggie Yates
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. -- Margaret Heffernan
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher. -- Dora Russell
I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language. -- Khushwant Singh
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
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
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
Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . . -- Potter Stewart
People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. -- Robin Quivers
I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive. -- Elias Koteas
Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past. -- Leslie Morgan Steiner
WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon. -- Julian Assange
Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands. -- Joyce Banda
Donâ??t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible. -- Les Brown
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
When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.' -- William Safire
To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him. -- John Landy
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
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
The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future -- Stefan Molyneux
All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc. -- Ray Comfort
The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved. -- Mona Charen

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