Physical Abuse Quotes

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.

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.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

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.

Since I was probably eight years old, just about everyday, all the way until I was 14 or 15 years old, just about everyday my mom and my stepdad would roll around in the living room fighting.

Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.

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

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

Anyone will say anything under torture.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Don't hit women. Never, ever, ever.

Some people say torture doesn’t work. I do not know whether it does or not. … The reality is the effect it has on you. When you become the torturer, something happens to that force … it has a corrosive effect over time. You move down a path that is difficult to come back from.

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

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

I intend to start on shelter homes, and turn them into women's liberating centers, where women not only get therapy and food, but also training on how to become autonomous. These programs would be designed especially for Muslim women, because there are no programs at all. They tend to go to the shelter for a while and then go back to a very abusive environment and then they come and go again.

I guarantee that if you talk to some of the young ladies that are out on the street selling their bodies -if you sit them down and really talk to them - they'll tell you that they've been abused, physically and mentally. They go through this stage where they don't care, because you don't feel like you're worth anything.

Assault in any form is never OK, and I want to be very clear on that.

I do not like violence.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

If he could hurt you, Bill Romanowski would hurt you.

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.