David Milch Quotes

Those who are beaten become beaters.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

They'll never do this to you again.

I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn't want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.

You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.

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

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

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

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

He whipped her to make her scream and then he whipped her to make her hush.

In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.

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

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

Bullies are always cowards.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.