Dave Pelzer Quotes

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

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.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

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

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

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.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

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

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.