Mistreatment Quotes

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Musgrave Ritual - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

“Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating from him and noticed that the Dursleys drew very slightly closer together.
“You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Woe to the man who offends a small child!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be the price of resistance, torture must be dared: though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable. Then, monsieur, I would resist as far as my strength permitted; when that strength failed I should be sure of a refuge. Death would certainly screen me both from bad laws and their consequences.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“She was all-out, delighted enthusiasm, like a stupid, bubbling stream, and the guy would just cup that in his hands for the hell of it, splash his face with it, and drop the leftovers back into the river.”
― Laura Florand, Kiss the Bride

“There's many a man who'll not think twice to mistreat a woman but who lives in fear of a habit and a holy symbol.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“The tenderest and most generous minds, when harshly treated, become generally the most inflexible.”
― Samuel Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5

“We create our own version of heaven, purgatory, or a hell with how we think, behave, and react to mistreatment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Making Others, to cry because you want a good life is like buying the land to dig your own pit.”
― Agbor Jenet

“I look at the world around me and I see that many of Adolf Hitlers dreams have come true: Weapons of mass destruction, huge rockets, surveillance of the masses, world domination, mistreatment of the poor, sick and elderly, to name just a few.”
― Steven Magee

“Mercilessness leads to mistreatment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I am not going to stress the usual argument that the police habitually mistreat Negroes. Every Negro knows this. There is scarcely any black man, woman, or child in the land who at some point or other has not been mistreated by a policeman. (A young man in Watts said, "The riots will continue because I, as a Negro, am immediately considered to be a criminal by the police and, if I have a pretty woman with me, she is a tramp even if she is my wife or mother.")”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“I’ve gotten the short end of so many sticks that I could start a bonfire.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And I concluded that every spilled blood nourishes hatred and mistreats the soul.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“As a sickened person living in the USA, President Trump has made himself my enemy through mistreatment of the poor, sick and elderly.”
― Steven Magee

“Mistreatment of the poor, sick and elderly is a feature Adolf Hitler and President Trump share.”
― Steven Magee

“The mistreatment of the disabled by the corrupt government is obscene.”
― Steven Magee

“The police covering up their mistreatment of citizens with a rigged internal affairs system extends the abuse of their victims.”
― Steven Magee

“There is nothing more uncomfortable than a son being cruel to his mother. It is the epitome of unfairness, and rarely did these sons own a mirror that revealed how irrationally brutal their treatment was.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Men who mistreat women are not only perpetuating violence, but also perpetuating darkness. They are tools of the enemy, agents of pain and suffering. But we must remember that their actions are not a reflection of our worth, but a reflection of their own sin and darkness. Let us stand strong against such evil and shine the light of God's love and justice upon them.”
― Shaila Touchton