Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Abuse is like a god that destroys his master.

American

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

Paul Watson

The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in another part of the child's mind. The child does not even remember abuse that happened the preceding night.

Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to ...

Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries

If you don't believe in miracles and your own inner power, you have forgotten just how truly amazing you are!

Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign o...

Michael Leunig

Abuses are the result of seeing one another too often.

Swahili

Perhaps no skeptic has done more to obfuscate the issue of ritual abuse than Kenneth Lanning of the FBI, who for years has maintained that no substantive evidence exists for the reality of ritual abuse (Lanning, 1991). (As investigative journalist Ci...

Catherine Gould

Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at...

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

I have sometimes said to a client: “If you are so in touch with your feelings from your abusive childhood, then you should know what abuse feels like. You should be able to remember how miserable it was to be cut down to nothing, to be put in fear,...

Lundy Bancroft

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal a...

Money, Possessions and Eternity

Smoke and mirrors’ is a useful metaphor for the ways in which organised abuse has chided conceptualisation and understanding. The chapter provides an overview of cite often incendiary debates over organised abuse before going on to suggest that cri...

Organised Sexual Abuse

Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the...

Eugene Mirman

...for all that people have tried to abuse it and disown it. "feminism" is still the word we need. No other word will do. And let's face it, there has been no other word, save "Girl Power" -- which makes you sound like you're into some branch of Scie...

How to Be a Woman

when you disolve the abuse inside, all the abusers outside are disolved by inner god force.

Life

Language is power that gets abused all the time, Robin, but we've got real enemies out there somewhere and until they're out of the picture, I won't get knotted up over people who don't get all the words right. It's a waste of energy.

Grease Monkey

A blanket could be used to suppress the will of the people. Every politician needs to keep this in mind when trying to retain power. Is America warm from the collected body heat, or from shared rage at being robbed from, lied to, and abused by the el...

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

If you can't let go of the power you possess, if you can't surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.

Notes from the Underground: The Spiritual Journal of a Secular Priest

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has ...

Shannon L. Alder