Quotes tagged ‘Child Abuse’

“Little Rock: Who’s Bill Murray? Tallahassee: I’ve never hit a kid before. I mean, that’s like asking who Gandhi is. Little Rock: Who’s Gandhi?”

— Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Tallahassee, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

“To say that we’ve all been here before and that many suspected this all along is an understatement; we simply have not been told this story in quite this way, at this level of frank detail.”

— Hank Stuever, washingtonpost.com

“These disturbing allegations only serve to highlight a startling lack of oversight on the part of YouTube, and they're a wake-up call to any parents who think they can trust the streaming network to provide safe entertainment for kids.”

— Ashley Austrew, thestir.cafemom.com

“Thank and sweetly kiss the hand of God that strikes you, because it is always the hand of a Father who strikes you because he loves you.”

— Padre Pio, ncregister.com

“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.”

— Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer, Mitchell Garabedian, Stanley Tucci, imdb.com

“Winifred Sanderson: Don't get your knickers in a twist! We're just three kindly old spinster ladies. Mary Sanderson: Spending a quiet evening at home. Sarah: Sucking the lives out of little children! [Winifred chokes Sarah]”

— Mick Garris, Neil Cuthbert, David Kirschner, Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson, Bette Midler, imdb.com

“River View argues it's doing just fine — great, in fact — even though it has no licensed teachers, no nurses, and no licensed psychiatrists or therapists on staff.”

— Tyler Kingkade, buzzfeednews.com

“Daya Diaz: What's the matter, you don't wanna hit me again? Aleida Diaz: From here on out, this place will hit you for me.”

— Jenji Kohan, Dayanara 'Daya' Diaz, Dascha Polanco, imdb.com

“Of course no one hangs the sad pictures. Am I right? Mom crying and dad looking angry. Kid with a black eye.”

— Noah Hawley, Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com

“How dare you inflict your bullshit on a child.”

— David Michod, Jonathan Lisco, Janine "Smurf" Cody, Ellen Barkin, imdb.com

“I don’t believe in hitting children. I don’t believe in spoiling a child, either.”

— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com

“The boy's name I didn't know. He told me he was eleven years old. He was carrying a basket or pail in his hand. He told me he was going to the store to do an errand. He told me his aunt ran this store. I asked him if he would like to earn fifty cents. He said yes.…I hit him on the back of the head w…”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“I was so young when it started. My father would come into my room at night and do things. Sometimes I felt like I was in a dream, watching him do it to a stranger, or a corpse. I finally got the courage to tell my stepmother. She gave me candy to keep quiet.”

— Jessica Sharzer, Grace Bertrand, Lizzie Brocheré, imdb.com

“She obviously did nothing to protect Amber from the abuse. She...she feels betrayed by her mother and now receives extreme sadistic pleasure in watching the same thing that happened to her. Strange. In this case, the abused actually became the abuser.”

— Debra J. Fisher, Erica Messer, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence.”

— Coretta Scott King, twitter.com

“I was an abused, angry kid who broke a lot of laws and didn’t really care. I lashed out. I was emotionally disturbed.”

— Amy Bleuel, isharehope.com

“You know what I'm gonna do to your sibling? I'm gonna stand over their crib and I'm gonna bleed into their mouth. Demon blood is better than Ovaltine. Vitamins, minerals...it makes you big and strong!”

— Jeremy Carver, Azazel, Christopher MacCabe, imdb.com

“Chronic childhood abuse causes very different mental and biological adaptations than discrete traumatic events in adulthood.”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com

“Blaming yourself for your childhood traumas protects you from seeing how vulnerable you were and are. You can become the powerful one. If it’s your fault, it’s ― at some strange level ― under your control.”

— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.com

“The cause of all of the world’s problems, as far as I’m concerned, is child abuse.”

— Sinead O'Connor, books.google.com