Abuse quotes

“- Fly: It's only your first try. But you're treating them like equals. They're sheep, they're inferior.
- Babe: Oh, no, they're not.
- Fly: Of course they are. We are their masters, Babe. Let them doubt it for a second and they'll walk all over you!”

Miriam Margolyes - Fly
Christine Cavanaugh - Babe

“- Will Graham: This started from an abused kid, a battered infant. There's something terrible about...
- Jack Crawford: What are you, sympathizing with this guy?
- Will Graham: Absolutely. My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.”

William Petersen - Will Graham
Dennis Farina - Jack Crawford

“It's not alright to let some motherfucker pound on you! If you had any sense, you'd get outta here, too.”
Vanessa Bell Calloway - Jackie

“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.”
Stanley Tucci - Mitchell Garabedian

“To have power does not mean that one can abuse the poor.”
Wagner Moura - Pablo Escobar

“- Courtney Collins: How did you know?
- Ex-Deputy So & So: [sadly] Because he reminded me of myself when I was a kid.”

James Ransone - Ex-Deputy So & So

- Michael Alig: Once when I was 10 my Sunday school teacher took me back to his house. He taught me how to french kiss among other things.
- Elke: He really took my boy under his wind. Very nice man.
- Michael Alig: His mother caught us in the basement. She screamed "I told you not to bring them here”. He said "Don't you'll frighten them away!”.
Macaulay Culkin - Michael Alig
Diana Scarwid - Elke

- Celie Johnson: He just climb on top of me and do his business.
- Shug Avery: "Do his business"? You sound like he going to the toilet on you.
- Celie Johnson: That's what it feels like.
- Shug Avery: Why then, Miss Celie... that means you’re still a virgin!
Whoopi Goldberg - Celie Johnson
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

“I was eleven. And I was preyed upon by father David Holly in Wester. And I don't mean prayed for, I mean preyed upon.”
Neal Huff - Phil Saviano

“- Ma: Sorry, I burned some cheese. Here. I just wasn't thinking.
- Old Nick: Well, thinking is not your strong suit.”
Brie Larson - Ma
Sean Bridgers - Old Nick

“- Marty Baron: Whether Mr Garabedian is a 'crank' or not, he says he has documents that prove that Cardinal knew.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: As I understand that those documents are under seal.
- Marty Baron: Okay, but the fact remains a Boston priest abused 80 kids, we have a lawyer who says he can prove Law knew about it and we've written all of......” (continue)(continue reading)
Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron
John Slattery - Ben Bradley, Jr.

“- Conservationist: What are you doing?
- Cooker: I'm definitely not burning ants with a magnifying glass if that's what you're implying.”
Jake Abel - Conservationist
Jonah Hill - Cooker

“Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.”
Dominique Swain - Lolita

“How was I supposed to know? Locked in the attic, tied to my grandmother. Beaten, beaten, beaten by my drunken father! Of course I'm kidding. Can't you take a joke? Don't you know when a guy's kidding?”
Ronald Francis Perlman - Cliff

“They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse.”
Doug Murray - Peter Canellos

“I have looked for our rights in the laws of nature and can find them only in the laws of political society. I have looked for our rights in the constitution of the English government and found them there! Our rights have been violated.”
Željko Ivanek - John Dickinson

“A little girl being brutalized... a little girl being abused has got nothing to do with the rules and regulations and everything to do with right and wrong.”
Ray Liotta - Henry Oak

“I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.”
Terrence Howard

“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
Tim Roth

“- Franklin M. Hart Jr.: Mrs. Rhodes... I am a married man.
- Doralee Rhodes: Forget about your wife! I mean, you may be hers in the evening, but you're my boy from 9 to 5!”

Dabney Coleman - Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Dolly Parton - Doralee Rhodes

“I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.”
Richard Donner

“- Sheriff Ticker: Did your father ever touch you anywhere?
- Seth Dove: Yeah.
- Sheriff Ticker: Where?
- Seth Dove: In the kitchen.
- Sheriff Ticker: Anywhere else?
- Seth Dove: Anyplace outside the kitchen?”
Robert Koons - Sheriff Ticker
Jeremy Cooper - Seth Dove

“There are no clear pictures of the sexual abuse we endured. I buried it as deep as it can possibly go.”
Jason Patric - Shakes

“Call me old fashioned, but I don't believe it to be appropriate to have sex with a woman who is unconcious.”
Jude Law - Graham