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"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
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"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."
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"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
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"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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"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
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"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."
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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
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"Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law."
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"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
Power
"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
Work
"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."
Nothing
"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
Sacrifice
"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
People
"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."
World
"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."
Conversation
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
Democracy
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
Dream
"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
Parenting
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