Troubled Abuser/Quotes

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

Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse.

—Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

Homer: He said I was an accident, he didn't wanna have me.
Marge: You didn't want to have Bart.
Homer: Yeah but you're not supposed to tell the child.
Marge: You tell Bart all the time, you told him this morning.

Homer: *flustered* But when I do it it's cute!

—The Simpsons