“[The Kiwi.] It's the bird equivalent of a badger.”

“Hasta la victoria siempre! Never forget! And let anthropomorphized kiwis puke evil provitamins on Jean-Luc Picard!”

Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director

“Are you demented, you stupid badger? Is that your problem? Or are you just an idiot?"
"As to that, I… Did you just call me a badger?"
"A bastard. I called you a bastard.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

“You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed.”

Tamora Pierce The Realms of the Gods

“The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.”

Julian Assange (1971) Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist

“Badger: The cuss you are.
Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

“He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels”

Henri Michaux (1899–1984) painter, poet, writer

“When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”

Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ

“Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer