In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness
I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
It’s never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down.
If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.
Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.
Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
