Line #102 Quotes/KidsAreCruel


1	->The truth is that you're never gonna avoid embarrassment at that age, because you're so easily embarrassed. One bad text will ruin your shit for days. You have to get out there and experience a shitload of personal humiliation before it finally dawns on you that it's really not that big of a deal. And then the more you talk to ladies, the less awkward it gets, and you eventually learn how to not fuck up, and then you become confident, and then women like you. That happens at around age 35.
2	-->--'''[[http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/tcu-got-screwed-and-thats-the-point-1668812802 Drew Magary]]'''
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4	->''"Mobbad blev man ju ändå." (Literally "You still got bullied", but with a wording which conveys resignation, passivity and depersonalized factualism.)''
5	-->-- '''Joakim Pirinen''', translated from Swedish.
6
7	->''"Growing up was hard. Kids would make fun of me and call me names, like "Birbiggleberry", and "Birbibliography", and "faggot"..."''
8	-->-- '''Comedian Mike Birbiglia'''
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10	->''"Schooldays are a live combat situation, with enemies on all sides, and friends who’ll stab you in the back just to [[TheSocialDarwinist clamber onto your corpse and stand that little bit higher]] on the social ladder. Everyone’s jostling for position like chimpanzees, with [[JerkJock Alpha sports lads]] and [[AlphaBitch popular girls]] sat like [[ArmchairMilitary the general on the hill]], while the gawky and the last-picked [[CannonFodder huddle together in the trenches]], fearful of giving away anything that can be used to destroy them — rumours that you trod in shit that see you referred to as ‘[[NeverLiveItDown Poo on the Shoe]]’ for the next decade."''
11	-->--'''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/my-top-20-movies-of-2013-the-list-part-2/ Stuart Millard]]''' on ''Film/IDeclareWar''
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13	->"''What if someone tries to knife her? Or god forbid, bring a gun to school? You know what kind of vindictive little bastards school kids can be.''"
14	-->-- '''Dr. Houston Brooks''', ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon''
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16	->''This woman, who had Lawyers I and III take out for her not less than 35 Rosewood girls, was not even capable of training her own children. She had a small girl who had fierce temper tantrums and was allowed to beat and kick the Rosewood girls, spit in their faces and upset their buckets when they were scrubbing the floors. If the girls protested, they were simply fired, and the lawyers got other girls for her on writs of habeas corpus.''
17	-->--'''Leo Kanner''', '''''The American Journal of Psychiatry''''' (1937)
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19	->''"I was fat, my clothes were from Goodwill, and I had an accent. People might think that five-year-olds can't be cruel, but I have some strong evidence to the contrary."''
20	-->-- '''Anya,''' ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost''
21
22	->''"Children can be nasty, don't you think?"''
23	-->--'''Hortense Daigle''', ''Film/TheBadSeed1956''
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25	->''At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to a certain fondness for this conclusion; if children ''aren't'' nonsentient, they're certainly psychopathic.''
26	-->-- '''Peter Watts'''' ''Literature/{{Blindsight}}'', Notes and References
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28	->''Kids are horrible, why do we keep making them?''
29	-->--'''Bob Belcher''', ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', "Bob and Deliver"
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31	->''...And thirdly, the kids in this show - you know, the ones that the target audience relate to and really like to watch and may even copycat - can be '''dicks'''. Selfish, annoying, spoilt dicks; and I'm not saying that kids aren't like that, because they '''all''' are. I'm sorry, every single one of them are; and if you're an adult, well '''you''' were as well! So was I! Everybody was! We are pretty much all born from day one to be as selfish, lazy and self-fulfilling as possible as human beings, and the things that stop us going down that road in the future are the parents.''
32	-->--'''{{WebVideo/Caddicarus}}''' in his review of ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig''.
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34	->''"People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children."''
35	-->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
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37	->''"[[OrphanageOfFear All the children here are miserable.]] When you are miserable, you need something that is even more miserable than you to feel good about yourself."''
38	-->-- '''Lucy''', ''Manga/ElfenLied''
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40	->'''Sgt. Major Cody:''' I'm having a sit-down with the Shifflets on their turf, you two are just here for backup.\
41	'''Sgt. Hill:''' They're kids.\
42	'''Sgt. Major Cody:''' I'm sorry, what magical land do you live in where kids aren't dicks?
43	-->-- ''{{Series/Enlisted}}''
44
45	->''Smeltings boys wore maroon tailcoats, orange knickerbockers, and flat straw hats called boaters. They also carried knobbly sticks, used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This was supposed to be good training for later life.''
46	-->-- ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''
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48	->''No one will ever know if children are monsters or monsters are children.''
49	-->-- '''Creator/LucioFulci''', ''Film/TheHouseByTheCemetery''
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51	->''"Unfortunately for Benny, we had not yet developed the ability to empathize with the pain and suffering of other people, and his terrified fleeing was pretty much the most fun thing that had ever happened to us."''
52	-->-- ''Webcomic/HyperboleAndAHalf'', ''"Wolves"''
53
54	->''[Children's] ingenuity in finding unexpected ways of doing mischief to themselves and others should never be underestimated.''
55	-->-- '''Lord Hoffman''', ''Jolley (A.P.) v Sutton London Borough Council'' [2000] 1 W.L.R. 1082
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57	->''"Kindergarten is like the ocean; you don't want to turn your back on it."''
58	-->--'''Joyce''', ''Film/KindergartenCop''
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60	->''"[[TropeNamers Kids are cruel.]] [[HumansAreBastards All people are by nature]], they just [[OlderAndWiser lose touch with it as they get older.]]"''
61	-->-- '''Sundowner''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
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63	->''"Like I said, kids are cruel, Jack... and [[PsychopathicManchild I'm very in touch with my inner child!"]]''
64	-->-- '''Sundowner''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
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66	->''"It's ''Film/ChildrenOfTheDamned'' day at the brain institute"''
67	-->--'''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank''
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69	->''With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.''
70	-->-- '''George Orwell''', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
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72	->'''''23.''' If there's a shy, quiet kid in your class [[BullyingADragon that everyone picks on]], treat him with respect and kindness. When his PsychicPowers [[WhosLaughingNow are made manifest,]] [[YouWillBeSpared you may actually survive]] ''
73	-->-- '''[[http://www.thalia.org/innocent.html The Normal Innocent Bystanders Survival Guide]]'''
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75	->''"Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better."''
76	-->-- '''Maggie''', ''Literature/{{NOS4A2}}'' by Creator/JoeHill
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78	->''The most "worldly" society I have ever lived in is that of schoolboys: most worldly in the cruelty and arrogance of the strong, the toadyism and mutual treachery of the weak, and the unqualified snobbery of both. Nothing was so base that the school proletariat would not do it, or suffer it, to win the favour of the school aristocracy: hardly any injustice too bad for the aristocracy to practice.''
79	-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis''', ''On Stories and Other Essays''
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81	->The children roared, tremendously excited; and those country boys, little more than animals, experienced that cruel craving which prompts the fowls of a farmyard to destroy one of their number as soon as it is wounded.
82	--->--''Literature/SimonsPapa'' on a kid with a DisappearedDad
83
84	->'''Marge:''' Kids can be so cruel.\
85	'''Bart:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint We can? Thanks, Mom!]]
86	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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88	->'''Principal Skinner:''' Kids can be so cruel.\
89	'''Nelson Muntz:''' Ha ha! We don't know when we've gone too far!
90	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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92	->'''[[LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut Gabriel]]:''' People make the point that no child's born sexist or homophobic or racist, and that's true. But what children ''are'' born as is '''horrible, exclusionary little bastards'''...I've seen kids, all of whom are dressed in green shirts, and then one kid just happens to be dressed in a blue shirt. And they will fucking jump on that kid.\
93	'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]:''' They say "just let kids be kids." But then we'll end up with another [[GodwinsLaw Nazi Party.]]
94	-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QMYnK_va44#t=1230s Let's Drown Out]]''' ''VideoGame/SmashTV''
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96	->'''Sonic''': [[SarcasmMode Oh, did someone get pushed to the back of the line one too many times in elementary school]]?
97	->'''Eggman''': It was ''middle'' school, and [[WouldntHitAGirl those girls were vicious]]!
98	-->--''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom''
99
100	->'''Sonic:''' Fine. I admit it. I still can't swim. I never took those lessons at the community pool.\
101	'''Amy:''' Sonic, you promised!\
102	'''Sonic:''' They wanted to put me in the beginner's class with the little kids! I can't be swimming around with a bunch of five-year-olds! [[BaitAndSwitchComment They can be so cruel when they sense weakness.]]
103	-->--''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom''
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105	->''You know, in that one scene in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' when the flying monkeys pull apart the Scarecrow? That's what it was like.''
106	-->-- '''[[Creator/JohnCReilly Dale Doback]]''', ''Film/StepBrothers''
107
108	->''The alignment of a two-year-old is not automatically "Neutral Evil".''
109	-->-- ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG''
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111	->''We're on our own, cousin\
112	All alone, cousin\
113	Let's think of a game to play\
114	Now the grown-ups have all gone a way\
115	You won't be much fun\
116	Being blind, deaf and dumb\
117	But I've no-one to play with today\
118	Do you know how to play hide and seek?\
119	To find me, it would take you a week\
120	But tied to that chair, you won't go anywhere\
121	[[ToThePain There's a lot I could do to a freak]]''
122	-->-- '''Cousin Kevin''', ''Music/{{Tommy}}''
123
124	->'''Usagi:''' It's as if he was attacked by children!\
125	'''Sasuke:''' Something more sinister.\
126	'''Usagi:''' More sinister than children?
127	-->--''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', "Bunraku"
128
129	->''"Before you develop a conscience, [[ItAmusedMe torture is amusing.]]"''
130	-->-- '''Paul Graham''' - ''[[http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html Why Nerds Are Unpopular]]''
131
132	->''"And children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint."''
133	-->-- ''Literature/{{Wicked}}''
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135	->You don't know what I'm talking about, because you have never had it any other way. But go back to being a toddler and relive your life as the weird kid, or the fat kid, or the poor kid. Reach age 12 or 13 and see a group of females give you the same look they give to a spider they found in the bathtub. Go back and get familiar with that body language that says, "No one will be happy or relaxed until you leave." Go back and live your life in a universe that bites your hand when you try to reach out to it. Then see what your confidence is like at age 23.
136	-->-- [[https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-useless-pieces-advice-everyone-gives/ The 5 Most Useless Pieces of Advice Everyone Gives, "You Just Need To Believe In Yourself!"]], ''{{Website/Cracked}}''
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138	->''Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.'
139	-->-- '''Elaine''', ''Literature/CatsEye1988''
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