Patty Hearst Quotes

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

I’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.

The more pain you inflict on someone, the more they will tell you what they think you want to hear.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.