I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.
When Jewish youths walk down the street and demand the death of Arabs simply because they're Arabs, then I've lost my own small battle.
But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
I now know in myself not to punch lockers.
A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.
These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
When you're younger, you have a lot more aggression.
Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.
It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.
