George Grosz Quotes

When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

I know what it's like to be threatened. I know what it's like to be humiliated and targeted.

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Bullies are just frightened people.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.