Iggy Pop Quotes

You know, your sarcasm isn’t appreciated right now. I’ve been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by you. Tell me, what else should I look forward to? Torture, or just a good maiming? (Kiara)

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.

Violence is not funny.

Bullying is a national epidemic.

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.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

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.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

There was great persecution in many places, both by imprisoning, and by breaking up of meetings. At a meeting about seven miles from London, the rude people usually came out of several parishes round about, to abuse Friends, and often beat and bruised them exceedingly. One day they abused about eighty Friends that went to that meeting out of London, tearing their coats and cloaks from off their backs, and throwing them into ditches and ponds; and when they had besmeared them with dirt, they said they looked like witches.

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

Bullying happens at all ages and levels.

I will not put up with bullying and harassment - certainly not after the experiences I've had.

It is a strange experience to have another person spit on you.

In the beginning, we'd walk off stage and burst into tears, 'cause we were getting bottles thrown at us, and boys were spitting all over us.

Almost every woman I've met has encountered bullying.

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.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

Go down to the corner store and beat the Jap up, clean all the crap up.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

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

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.