River Phoenix Quotes

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

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

Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.

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.

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

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

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

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

I have no patience whatsoever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

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

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.

Bullies are always cowards.

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

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

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

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.

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

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

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

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