Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
– Lundy Bancroft
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- Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not -œcure- partner abuse. – Lundy Bancroft
- As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. – Lundy Bancroft
- Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control. – Lundy Bancroft
- Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. – Lundy Bancroft
- Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: -œWhen he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror. – Lundy Bancroft
- But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites. – Mark Buchanan
- Respect, love, Trust; Every such things works both ways. If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too. – Sandesh limbu
- Respect, love, trust; Every such thing works both ways.If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too. – Sandesh Hukpachongbang
- The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism’s diametric opposite of is Libertarianism. – AE Samaan
- Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key – Israelmore Ayivor
- Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse. – Criss Jami
- Hate is often an obverse form of love.You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love. – Sri Chinmoy
- You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. – Sri Chinmoy
- To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you. – Auliq Ice
- Respect is not delivered it is earned. If you want more respect in the world treat people with tremendous respect. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! – Rebecca McKinsey
- The song says respect yourself.But I would rather respect another and then have them respect me in return. – Anthony T Hincks
- Respect those who respect you; disrespect those who disrespect you, only then they will respect you. – John Yang aka Private
- Life wants you to respect yourself, respect other people and respect the planet. – Bryant McGill
- Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams. – Kevin James Breaux
- We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves. – JulieAnne
- Worn over the man’s head like a deranged bank robber is a pair of pink cotton panties. – Dave Lundy
- One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. – Mindy Kaling
- We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love. – Auliq Ice
- Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love. – Debasish Mridha
- I am leaving. Where? Not where but whom. Whom? You. – Vikrmn
- Always there whom we believe shouldn’t be and never are there whom we believe should be. – Vlgame
- Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. – Thomas Hardy
- You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran
- You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon-” – Ayn Rand
- Those whom we cannot stand are usually those whom we cannot understand. – PK Shaw
- If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please. – Steven J Lawson
- Those with whom we communicate we think better than they are; those with whom we don’t, worse. – Dennis Vickers Lost Words
- [Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek. – Gustavo Gutirrez
- It is impossible to love someone you do not respect, but there can be mutual attraction without mutual respect. – Haruna Idowu
- Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected. – Turcois Omine
- sStip settling for someone who doesn’t meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you’re looking for. – Nikki Rowe
- Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other – on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other. – Haim G Ginott
- Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak. – Ben Bereng
- Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different? – Anthony Marais