Patricia Highsmith Quotes

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

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

I don't want to get punched all my life.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out

I'm gonna have to start walking down the street and start hitting people in the head!

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

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.

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

I punched my mother out once.

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

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

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

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.