Mental Abuse Quotes

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

I was used to football supporters hammering me and I thought my name was Graham Potter-Boo at one point.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.

When I was younger, I used to think it was kind of cool to abuse actors mentally, but I really disagree with that now.

And the children? Twelve hours of work for children! 0, misery. But not all the Jules Simon of the Academy of Moral and Political Science, not all the Germanys of Jesuitism, could have invented a vice more degrading to the intelligence of the children, more corrupting of their instincts, more destructive of their organism than work in the vitiated atmosphere of the capitalist factory

No one shall strike or caress a child.

I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.

I talked about my father being abusive to my mother - people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy.

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

I would hate it if my four boys were bullied as I was.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count them as I was running.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.