Best abuse & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.”

Thinking World Trying Children Remember Wonder Abuse Child Abuse Sexually Abused Children

Author:Robin Quivers

“I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.”

Thinking Knows Problem Stones Abuse Contact Substance Substance Abuse

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.”

Thinking Real Age Healthy Concern Abuse Steroid

Author:Ben Miller

“We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.”

Thinking Way Feels Humans Motivational Judging Abuse Assuming Assumption

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.”

Thinking Ideas Moments Truth Expression Abuse Collectives Excess Suspicious Exaggerated

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.”

“I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Children Suffering Evil Grows Poor Growing Up Conditions Shadow Abuse Tendencies Educated Collectives Manifest Humiliated Diabolical Inhumane

Author:Deepak Chopra

“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”

Thinking Needs Two Three Speak Silence Weak Hatred Abuse Slave Dare Fallen Shrinks Scoffing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.”

People Thinking Firsts Use Causes Voice Forget Animal Issues First Time Abuse Determined Animal Abuse

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.”

“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.”

Thinking Knows Wells Looks Children Hard Memories Stones Abuse Painful Do You Know Tape Recorders Chisels Painful Things

Author:Anne Heche

“I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.”

Thinking Country Used Common Heard Citizens Argument Abuse Like Me Phrases Hurtful Usage

Author:Gunter Grass

“The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and commitment that develop in the couple, the more the abuser comes to think of his partner as a prized object. Possessiveness is at the core of the abuser's mindset, the spring from which all the other streams spout; on some level he feels that he owns you and therefore has the right to treat you as he sees fit.”

Thinking Feels Reason Levels Objects Serious Couple Fit Spring Commitment Treats Abuse Mindset Partners Core Reason Why Streams Ownership Abusers Possessiveness

Author:Lundy Bancroft

“Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.”

Thinking Way Children Persons Has Beens Reason Past Beautiful Sides Dark Interesting Abuse Relate Reason Why Furious Outcast Facets Maleficent

Author:Angelina Jolie

“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

“To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.”

People Thinking Humans May Use Seems Individual Language Liberty Fit Abuse Good Things Someday Indispensable Thorough Use And Abuse

Author:Aldous Huxley

“This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.”

Ifs Thinking Want Government Courses Practice Abuse Congress Extras Department Holiday Sunday Get Back Comment Saturday Telephones Monday Friday

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.”

“Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Children Abuse Victim Loud Say Anything Demeaning

Author:Louis C. K.

“I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Ideas Fall Winning Powerful Consciousness Love You Dignity Treats Abuse Praise Falling In Love Treated Rooted Human Dignity Dignity And Respect

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'”

“In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.”

Thinking Film Language Sex Violence Television Taste Abuse Presses Tolerance Mainstream Graphic

Author:Charlton Heston

“I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.”

“If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.”

Ifs Thinking Should Children Persons Problem Abuse Our Children Active Substance Your Children Caregivers Substance Abuse

Author:Emily Yoffe

“Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.”

Thinking Writing Children Whole Kids School Abuse Filled Child Abuse School System Unprepared

Author:Frank Zappa

“If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Trying Past Abuse Scripts Drunk Lots Of Money Make You Think

Author:Daniel Craig

“Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing”

Thinking Firsts Humans Persons Easy Difficult Human Beings Steps Violence Impossible Objects Equal Empathy Abuse Violent First Steps

Book:Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising

Source: Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising

“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.”

“We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Kind War Hands Kids School Culture Morning Gay Beats Adults Abuse Lays Abstract Jail Monday License Ballots Gay People Afar Roaring Monday Morning Bashers

Author:Dan Savage

“I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.”

Thinking Economy Waste Abuse Billions Fraud Bureaucracy Eliminating

Author:Sean Hannity

“Being a woman is a very powerful thing, I think, and you don't want to abuse that.”

Thinking Want Powerful Abuse Very Powerful Being A Woman

Author:Juno Temple

“I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.”

People Thinking Important Shows Young President Records Authority Consequence Negative Abuse Boxes Score Truthful

Author:William J. Clinton

“Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.”

Thinking Way Believe Huge Involved Abuse Bases Digital Currency Good Way Bitcoin Transactions

Author:Bill Gates

“As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape.”

Thinking Long Helping Solutions Abuse Scared Cycles Abusers

Author:Roseanne Barr

“There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve never had any bad encounters with any of it.”

People Thinking Ideas Social Abuse Fantastic Encounters Networking Social Networking Social Network

Author:Maisie Williams

“In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.”

“The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.”

Thinking Firsts Children Use Happens Danger Degrees Computer Abuse Notes Extras Justify Child Abuse Pornography Frenzy Abduction

Author:Seymour Papert

“A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.”

Thinking Men Want Kind Abuse Disregard

Author:Paul Kingsnorth

“Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they're not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won't oppose it.”

People Thinking Want Giving Kind Names Sides Willing Abuse Threat Pushing Intimidating Donors

Author:Charles Koch

“I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.”

Thinking Needs Believe May Important Ends Political I Believe Sides Concepts Tools Universal Abuse Flaws Spectrum Critique Political Spectrum

Author:Alison Assiter

“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

“I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.”

People Thinking Years Shows Hands Suffering Parent Violence Childhood Masters Tvs Abuse Seeds Magazines Stem Tv Shows Puberty Sadistic Arousal Formative Years

Author:Park Dietz

“I think generally speaking, both people are trying to be free from the abuses of the white racist North American authorities. I think that's the one common denominator. The Cubans found a way to liberate themselves and we haven't found the way yet. So that's the difference.”

People Thinking Way Trying Found Differences White Common Havens Authority Abuse Racist Cuban Common Denominator

Author:Huey Newton

“Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.”

Thinking Suffering Born Animal Behavior Abuse Billions Core Disaster Unconscious

Author:Russell Simmons

“Men might be chastised for being promiscuous, but I think they're more likely to be given a pass, due to a "men will be men" attitude that still prevails in the Western world. They don't usually experience anything like the virulent shaming and verbal abuse that women who are sexually adventurous are sometimes prone to experiencing.”

Thinking Men World Stills Sometimes Might Given Attitude Abuse Western Dues Be A Man Adventurous Sexually Western World Promiscuous Verbal Abuse

Author:Christine Sneed

“How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think that as regards democracy everything is settled now in America? If this were so, there would be no Ferguson issue, right? There would be no other issues of similar kind, there would be no police abuse. Our goal is to see all these issues and respond to them timely and properly. The same applies to Russia. We also have a lot of problems.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Long States Problem Would Be America Process Goal United United States Democracy Issues Taken Abuse Police Regard Democratic Russia Timely Democratic Process Ferguson

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I have great concern, but my concern is probably not what most people would think it would be.My concern is why is our faith being targeted as part of this inquiry when there are laws on the books and there is legal jurisdiction any time there is abuse in financial handling?”

People Thinking Book Would Be Law Concern Abuse Financial Inquiry Jurisdiction

Author:Paula White

“Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.”

“Physically abusive and verbally abuse marriages are very, very difficult situations. I fully understand people in those kinds of marriages who think there is no hope. I also know that the advice that is given by most people is simply... get out of there as fast as you can.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Given Difficult Situation Advice Abuse No Hope Abusive Difficult Situations

Author:Gary Chapman

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