QotD: Bullies

I suppose that people who feel little control over their own lives or destinies can obtain a slight sense of agency by interfering in the lives of others, in tiny ways. I have noticed that many of the men who are violently dictatorial at home often count for little once they pass their own threshold. They are the Stalins of their own home.

Theodore Dalrymple, interviewed by James Glazov in "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It", FrontPage, 2005-08-31