Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

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

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

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

The difference between rape and seduction is salesmanship.

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

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

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

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

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

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

Bullies are just frightened people.

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

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

They'll never do this to you again.

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

If a guy can bully you, he will bully you.

I was highly influenced by violence.

The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.

I get angry when people push people around.