Bullying is children experimenting with social power.

— Unknown source

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, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970
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