"Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once."

-- Lundy Bancroft

#Men Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Partners Quotes

“What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.”
“Where even a sliver of love exists the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.”
“I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.”
“If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.”
“We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. [] Those who 'abjure' violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.”
“We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.”
“A little drama wins more friends than boring.”
“It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.”

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