Abuse Tolerance Quotes

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.

People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

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.

When someone is humiliating and harassing a woman, he must be knowing that the victim is needy and left with no option but to tolerate such harassment to save the job.

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.

Many times players have done stuff to me, like kick me. But I'm not a cry baby.

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so,' I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level.' But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.

I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

It's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

Some people have bigger egos than others. You have to take a lot of abuse, and take it in and not respond, because you don't want conflicts on the movie, you don't want to start screaming at people even when they treat you - even when they're not behaving properly, because you want them to do their job, and keep on doing it.

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

When an article in the Egyptian criminal code says that if a woman is beaten by her husband “with good intentions” no punitive damages can be obtained, then to hell with political correctness.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.