Alice Miller Quotes

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Those who are beaten become beaters.

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Nobody can tell me from some ivory tower that you take a kid, kick him in the rear end, and it doesn’t do him any good.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

My mother was the most wicked mother ever seen in life when it came to beating. Oh-la-la! Every time I would say, 'This is the end of me.' Oh, how she would beat me.

Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.

Bullying is a topic that's been close to my heart for a while.

There were moments where I was called many derogatory names. I've gotten into a couple of fights. People have jumped me. You know, I've had a lot of things that have happened to me, but I look past those things now.