Top 270 Abusive Quotes & Sayings

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

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.

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

An openly gay footballer would be exposed to abusive comments.

A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive.

One of the things that can be helpful in terms of an explanation is to look at the ways in which cults are similar to abusive relationships. Nobody seeks out an abusive partner, but so many people stay in these relationships longer than they should - they make excuses, they ignore red flags, and they allow themselves to be emotionally manipulated.

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

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

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.

There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture in my family, and I have to turn away from it.

I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

I know I get abusive, very abusive, when I'm angry.

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.

Of all the sicknesses, there is probably none more abusive than homophobia.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

The Internet used to be fun, it was nice, now it's a way for people to be abusive towards one another.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.

I know what it feels like to represent clients who can't get restraining orders on abusive partners.

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

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

I have the most guilty, abusive relationship with McDonald's. Left to my own devices, I'd probably eat four Big Macs a week.

It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.

My dad was abusive. And so he would say, 'You're my favorite.' Being a favorite of an abusive parent is not really a good thing, necessarily.

If you chose to be with an abusive man, a powerful, abusive man, it reflects something about who you are and what you want for yourself.

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

I truly believe the American consumer doesn’t want to buy products made under abusive conditions.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.

People who are in abusive relationships often don't realise it, but it slowly seems to build until you're trapped.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

The working conditions of Indian labourers in the Gulf countries are notoriously abusive.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

I've said before, 'gymnastics is abusive,' but now I know it's not the sport that's abusive - it's the culture that was created and accepted and normalized.

If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse, mine are words, his was action. This is what he has done to women. Never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women, so you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

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

In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.