1 | ->''"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."'' |
2 | -->-- '''Bertrand Russell''', ''Education and the Social Order'' |
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4 | ->''"Look Bob... okay, picture this long line of fathers and sons stretching from Adam all the way down to Andy. Now, [[TheChainOfHarm they're all passing down this punch]], [[SinsOfOurFathers from one generation to the next, father to son]], and the trick is to pass on a softer punch. Your father passed on a softer punch."'' |
5 | -->-- '''God''', ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'' |
6 | |
7 | ->'''Persephone:''' Tell me something, Zagreus... sometimes I fear... do you hate him? I mean your father. Regardless of his intentions... it sounds as though he made your life extraordinarily difficult. All his pent-up fear and anger... you bore the brunt of it. |
8 | ->'''Zagreus:''' Do I hate him...? Mother, I don't know that I hate anybody, really. The tales of him and the Olympians rending their immortal Titan parents to bits... I can't relate to how they must have felt. But I resented him, for sure. And... I don't know if I'll ever get over that entirely. |
9 | -->-- ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' |
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11 | ->''The healthy man does not torture others--generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.'' |
12 | -->-- '''UsefulNotes/CarlJung''' |
13 | |
14 | ->'''Sister:''' What are you crying about? I only hit you once.[[labelnote:context]]In self-defense, and to protect a baby bird.[[/labelnote]] |
15 | ->'''Tuffy:''' I'm not crying about that. |
16 | ->'''Sister:''' Then what ''are'' you crying about? |
17 | ->'''Tuffy:''' If the principal tells my mom and dad about this, I won't be able to sit down for a--well, a long time. |
18 | ->'''Sister:''' (Hmm, here's a cub who maybe gets hit a lot at home. Maybe that's why she likes to hit other cubs at school.) |
19 | -->-- ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears and the Bully'' (Original print) |
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