Mistreatment Quotes

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

At some point you have to own up to how great you are, how beautiful you are, to how much inner dignity and potential you have. Drop complaining about what other people didn’t give you or do for you, or how they mistreated you. Take repossession of your Self and you will rise to a level of greatness that has been yours all along.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit.

It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

Let others know when they have hurt or angered you.

By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.

Never, ever mistreat someone who loves you. Because you're not entitled to that love.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

I can't think of anyone I've mistreated.

I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

We're like America's little pit bull.

They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you.

Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any.

People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her as an excuse to mistreat you, stop believing anything he tells you about that relationship and instead recognize it as a sign that he has problems with relating to women.

This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.

Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another.

Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out.

Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person.

The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls.

But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.