Abuse Quotes

I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

I don't do drugs, though. Just weed.

He who has the greatest power put into his hands will only become the more impatient of any restraint in the use of it.

Power without authority is tyranny.

O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!

Mongolian Savages

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

I didn't just screw Ho Chi Minh. I cut his pecker off.

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits. And can the wisdom of this policy be doubted by any one who reflects that to the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression?

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

It is easy to kick a person when he is down.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

… preposterous little czar

…rape, incest, and me.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.