Snoh Aalegra Quotes

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

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.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

I don't want to be a punching bag.

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

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Violence is not funny.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

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

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

Why do you all push us around?