Power and Control Quotes

Where there is power, there is resistance.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

He whipped her to make her scream and then he whipped her to make her hush.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

History’s most important lesson is that it has not been possible to make coercion compatible with the truth.

What is the inducement of these great States to put down the Bank of the United States? Their avarice combined with their love of domination …. The great commercial States are to monopolize the benefits which are to arise from the deposits of your public money.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.

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

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

At the end of the day, your life is on the line when you're dealing with abusive men, and your life is more important than any man.

It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman.