Best abuse & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.”

World Self Bed Abuse Excuse Delightful No Excuses

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“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.”

“He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.”

Doe Self Certain Cases Bears Self Love Abuse Profession Operations Subtle

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.”

Giving Self Age Lasts Violence Hair Tradition Abuse Shakes Gray Antiquity Morrow Gray Hair Acquiescence

Book:The prospect of reform in Europe [by E. Everett]. From the North Amer. review

Source: The prospect of reform in Europe [by E. Everett]. From the North Amer. review

“self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).”

Self Sin Sacrifice Abuse Seven Pity Deception Serving Self Deception Self Pity Self Sacrifice Loathing Self Loathing Self Serving Deadly Sins Seven Deadly Sins

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.”

Ifs Knows Trying Self Order Wonderful Periods Highest Abuse Pastor Perfectionism

Author:Ashley Judd

“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.”

Ifs Littles Persons Self Whole Walks Limits Abuse Whole Life Tolerate

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!”

Self Form Steps Ready Abuse Step Up Indecision

Author:Suzanne Evans

“If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.”

Ifs Stills Self Use Eating Abuse Substance Bad Day Having A Bad Day Self Medicating

Author:Al Roker

“I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.”

Thinking Want Self Feelings Form Achieve Abuse Hated Afternoon Overweight

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.”

Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”

“In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.”

Source: Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.”

Self Feelings Found Successful Becoming Drug Abuse Importance Vanity Demon Thrill Self-importance Drug Abuse

Author:Ethan Hawke

“A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.”

Self Done Issues Clear Ought Abuse Meetings Environmental Guilty Realization Occasions Protest Righteousness Stewardship Self Righteousness Accusers Smog Convocation

Author:Wendell Berry

“I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.”

Years Self Eye Young Next Felt Ten Abuse Available Experiments Self Centered Seventeen

Author:Robert Reed

“In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.”

Years Doe Self Sometimes Problem Party Exercise Members Percent Criticism Abuse Good Things Addresses Criticize Communist Assembly Administrative Communist Party Self Criticism

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.”

“My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.”

Mind Self Philosophy Abuse Murder Lifetime Killing Killing Yourself Killing Myself

Author:Margaret Cho

“Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.”

Stills Self Social Natural Abuse Aggression Anti Social

Author:Richey Edwards

“Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.”

Self Care Self Love Abuse Self Care

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.”

Children Self Past Social Our Lives Violence Crime Self Esteem Drug Abuse Alcohol Esteem Welfare Pregnancy Child Abuse Our Past Vaccines Dependency Premature Drug Abuse Past Failures

Author:John Vasconcellos

“You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.”

Writing Self Fiction Records Planets Capacity Abuse Species Stupidity Disaster Cruelty Deception Indifference Righteousness Absurdity Self Deception Self Righteousness

Author:John Irving

“My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.”

People Self Reason Mother Love Is Views Drug Opposites Abuse Addiction Alcohol Lists Indifference Rejection Destructive Addict Alcoholics Drug Addict Self Destructive Self Destruct

Author:Bernie Siegel

“Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .”

Source: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition

“I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.”

People Thinking Self Problem Self Esteem Terrible Abuse Illness Mental Illness Esteem

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.”

People Thinking World Way Feels Should Self Reason Use Term Crazy Self Esteem Treats Abuse Treated Esteem Ireland Traps Terrified Being Crazy

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.”

Years Self Childhood Self Esteem Serious Overcoming Abuse Decades Esteem Bullying Take Me Crushed Through The Years

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness and good-for-nothingness of the entire community?”

Self Young Lying Mother Community Secret Roots Universal Abuse Vices Ignorant Nothingness Nervousness

Author:John Harvey Kellogg

“The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.”

People Should Heart Self Government Hell Media Inspire Abuse Corruption Curse Employee Accountability Apathy Embarrassing Abuse Of Power Runaway Criminality Self Inflicted

Author:Ted Nugent

“Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”

Inspirational Different Self Moments Self Esteem Regret Circumstances Healthy Judgment Sick Abuse No Regrets I Regret Impeccable Four Agreements You Will Regret

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”

Self Regret Circumstances Judgment Abuse Agreement No Regrets I Regret Impeccable Four Agreements You Will Regret Past Regrets

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not to be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse." "You get all that from a pink Onesie?" Leah said after a moment.”

“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.”

“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.”

People Should Believe Humans Wells Self Use Abuse Abusive Four Agreements

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”

Years Kind Has Beens Made Self Facts Law Nations Too Much Serious Abuse Immigration Administration Immigrants Permit Employers Sanctions Immigration Laws

Author:William J. Clinton

“In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”

“We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.”

Way Needs Mean Self Reason Motivational Perfect Accepting Self Love Ideals Perfection And Love Abuse Accepted Rejection Rejects Measuring Measuring Up

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.”

“Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.”

Ifs Men Way Self Strong Walks Clear Self Esteem Becoming Please Abuse Safety Including Esteem Being Yourself Tolerate Strong Women Abusive

Book:AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself

Source: AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself

“And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.”

Ifs Men Self Order Knowing Waste Abuse Accounts Sake Reputation Self Respect Ancestor Defeated Plato Contests

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.”

Self Certain Virtue Sacrifice Abuse Murder Tenderness Adultery Self Sacrifice Blasphemy Offence Satanic Judas Splendour Informing

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.”

“Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.”

Self Form Worst Abuse Celibacy

Author:Peter De Vries

“There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.”

Persons Self Done Emotional Type Perception Concepts Abuse Victim Self Confidence Emotional Abuse Sense Of Self Brainwashing Self Trust Self Concept

Author:Beverly Engel

“The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.”

Mean Self Country States Government Interest Responsibility Abuse Notion Obedience Rejects Motivated Patriot Self Interest Abuse Of Power Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Ron Paul

“Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.”

Soul Self Culture Poor Abuse Possession Noble Manly Negation

Author:Pope Julius II

“With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.”

Mind Believe May Self Situation Self Esteem Emotional Judging Losing Criticism Abuse Victim Blame Esteem Insult Incapable Beaten Emotional Abuse Accusation

Author:Beverly Engel

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.”

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