Alexis Korner Quotes

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.

I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.