Quotes About Verbal Abuse

#1. If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical side of politics, you must cease from silly verbal abuse. If you don't want it, then we go on as we are, fractious and impotent.

Edward Abbey

#2. Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person.

Asa Don Brown

#3. I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

Julie Burchill

#4. Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

Beverly Engel

#5. I've learned that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse and take longer to heal from.

Jaycee Dugard

#6. Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl
"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto

Mary Ann D'Alto

#8. Her mother always told her, "If he hits you, then you leave," but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

Shannon Celebi

#9. The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

Dominique Moceanu

#11. I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Ruth Rendell

#12. It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over time it can erode your self-esteem and poison the relationship. Seek support immediately.

Randi Kreger

#13. These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

Athanasius

#14. There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

Joyce Rachelle

#15. If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

Joyce Rachelle

#16. Oh, Lord. Tess could feel her entire personality being drained from her body. Those talkative, energetic people always left her feeling that way.

Liane Moriarty

#17. Partner psychological abuse encompasses nonaccidental verbal or symbolic acts by one partner that result, or have reasonable potential to result, in significant harm to the other partner.

Donald W. Black

#18. Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

Caleb Cushing

#19. Someone who's 26, 27, has a very different relationship to sex than someone who's 30.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#20. I owe absolutely everything to HBO.

Emilia Clarke

#21. Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

Joyce Rachelle

#22. Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Ben Stein

#23. The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds.

Anthony Liccione

#24. I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

Yolanda Adams

#25. If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking.

Chuck Wendig

#26. Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

Asa Don Brown

#27. I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.'
'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.

Mark Helprin

#28. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

Joyce Rachelle

#29. Could you rewind that question?" "Zack's working up to asking you

Nora Roberts

#30. For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

Amor Towles

#31. From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

Justina Chen