Abuse quotes
705 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside abuse — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck."
"I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined."
"One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching.""
"The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it."
"If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension."
"The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us."
"I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse."
"After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it."
"Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse."
"The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse."
"Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?"
"Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves."
"The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never."
"Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself."
