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Quotes About Bullying

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.
~ John Schneider
I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.
~ Jack Garratt
Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.
~ Toyah Willcox
Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade.
~ Jonathan Van Ness
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
A weak man always seeks to hurt those lower than he
~ Lisa See
A weak man always seeks to hurt those lower than he is
~ Lisa See
Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits.
~ Lisa Unger
He didn't respect or even understand that other people had boundaries and only bullies pushed through them.
~ Lisa Unger
He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.
~ Louis Sachar
He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had already done three things wrong: First, he had knocked over a girl and made her cry. Second, he was late getting back to class. And third and worst of all, his name was Bradley Chalkers. As long as his name was Bradley Chalker's, he'd never get a gold star. They don't give gold stars to monsters.
~ Louis Sachar
How did you make the boys stop calling you Dora? I trashed 'em.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Rockefeller never saw rebates as criminal or illegitimate or as favors secured only by bullying monopolies. He was correct in stating that listed rates were always a farce, a starting point for haggling.
~ Ron Chernow
If you cross examine a child of seven or eight on his day's doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep), he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture - religious as well as scientific.
~ Rudyard Kipling
No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.
~ Ruth Ozeki
I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
~ Dudley Moore
Bullies are weak!Bullies are cowards!Bullies are full of hot air!Time to let go of the balloons and let the bullies, Fly Away!
~ Joanfrances Boyle
People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.
~ Katy Perry
One of the cruelest children had glued a nametag to the mouse's back. Sali had been scrawled in crude letters, but Sally took not the slightest pleasure in the misspelling of her name. She had cried over the little curled-up body, with its tiny whiskers and perfect paws, but when her teacher had asked what was wrong, she'd only shrugged, as though she had lost the power of speech.
~ Alice Hoffman
Never underestimate the power of calculated bullying and veiled threats! It's my conviction that, when it comes to politics, a tender conscience can be an inconvenience.
~ Alison Weir
One of the authors, then a department head, found that this worked when a colleague was trying to manipulate and bully him (about office space); looking right at the colleague and loudly saying, "Don't mess with me, Jack. I teach negotiations!" made him back off. Jack was much nicer from then on, because he assumed his ploys wouldn't work.
~ Allan R. Cohen
He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.
~ Joe Hill
Christians think you got to do good 'cause you want to go to heaven, but if you do good 'cause you want to do good and don't believe in that shit, then they figure it's the slow oven for you anyway. They like a god that's a bully, makes you want to do good 'cause he's gonna rough you up.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Why don't you just tell him what he wants to know?" "I do not like bullies. And I have never responded well to threats of force."She paused. "Also, I believe he will kill me anyway." "Why?" "Because that is what he does.
~ Joe Schreiber