#abuse

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it. ↗

— Vince Cable

#corporate #entities #flagrant #must #seek

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#abuse #also #although #because #committed

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. ↗

— James Madison

#abuse of power #also #endangered #liberty #may

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#english #english language #i #i love #language

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#also #animated #anyone #entrusted #love

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#clergy #different #different way #faith #i

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#defined #definition #done #group #means

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ↗

— James Madison

#essence #ever #government #hands #human

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#became #being #cases #child #child abuse