"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."
— Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order
"Look Bob... okay, picture this long line of fathers and sons stretching from Adam all the way down to Andy. Now, they're all passing down this punch, 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."
— God, God, the Devil and Bob
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.
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.
— Hades
The healthy man does not torture others—generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Sister: What are you crying about? I only hit you once.context
Tuffy: I'm not crying about that.
Sister: Then what are you crying about?
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.
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.)
— The Berenstain Bears and the Bully (Original print)
