Gary Shteyngart Quotes

I like hurting people.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.