Chris Hedges Quotes

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.

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

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

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

The art of power often involves brutality — and other offenses too.

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

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

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

I never caught on to being a bully.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

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.

The best way to control the nigger is to whip him when he does not obey.

I’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.

I was highly influenced by violence.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.

When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.