Psychological Abuse Quotes

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.

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

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

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 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.

It’s all torture.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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.

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.

… the most uncouth … mental torture

The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.

Are we even now? Or do you want to rape my body as much as you’ve raped my soul? (Acheron)

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.

Don't rationalize or internalize abusive behavior, because love doesn't hurt.

The very word torture is a disgrace to the human race.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity.