Beatings Quotes

“A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.”
― Dannika Dark, Gravity

“FLIES IN DISGUISE


Tell me,
Have you
Really seen
Flies in a child's eyes
Or heard their hungry cries
In the middle
Of the night?

Don't lie.

You can protest all you want
About peace
And genocide,
But unless you are willing
To take beatings for your fights,
Your display of trendy showmanship
Simply ain't right.

Go on,
Carry your useless signs
About an issue the world
Already abhors,
But it's TRUE
Heartfelt actions
That will prevent
Suits and
Senators
From creating
Any more wars.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“She said, Then there's the beatings. I can feel them in my bones. I cleared my throat. Beatings for what? She shrugged. You might be made an example of for sleeping in the wrong position, or sneezing at mass. Writing with your left hand, losing a stud off your boot. Having hair that was curly, or red. I reached out to the faint fuzz of amber escaping from her pins. Why on earth— They said it was a mark of badness and hung me up by my bun from a coat hook. I pulled back my hand and put it over my mouth.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

“Desperate times, desperate measures. Ever since the beating in the park Sancho had felt something go wrong inside him, not a physical ailment but an existential one. After you were badly beaten, the essential part of you that made you a human being could come loose from the world, as if the self were a small boat and the rope mooring it to the dock slid off its cleats so that the dinghy drifted out helplessly into the middle of the pond; or as if a large vessel, a merchant ship, perhaps, began in the grip of a powerful current to drag its anchor and ran the risk of colliding with other ships or disastrously running aground. He now understood that this loosening was perhaps not only physical but also ethical, that when violence was done to a person, then violence entered the range of what that person--previously peaceable and law-abiding--afterwards included in the spectrum of what was possible. It became an option.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte