"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."

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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Abuse, Word, Pain, Authority

"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

Abuse, Violence, Illusion, Reality

"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Abuse, Power, Control, Forgiveness

"The problem with depicting abusers as full-time monsters is that when a person is actually experiencing abuse in their own life, they'll think 'oh but he's the sweetest guy most of the time so he can't be an abuser ' or 'but he's not ALWAYS horrible, he's usually amazing, so he's not an abuser', and they'll make the mistake of thinking they mustn't really be being abused when they actually are."

Miya Yamanouchi, Japanese Author

Abuse, Awareness, Truth, Reality

"I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention."

Kenny Guinn, American Politician

Abuse, Attention, Bureaucracy, Children

"Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse."

Rick Larsen, American Politician

Abuse, Children, Victims

"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."

Chris Hedges, American Journalist

Abuse, Force, Rules, Theft

"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."

Arthur Murray, American Businessman

Abuse, Hell, Past, State

"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."

Charles Bradlaugh, English Activist

Abuse, Denial, Freespeech

"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Abuse, Power, Regret, Control, Hurt

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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

"I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention."

"Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse."

"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."

"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."

"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."

"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."

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