Bully Quotes - Page 17

• The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.

  Amy Walter

  Real, Kids, Taught

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.

  Venus Williams

  Opportunity, Thinking, Opponents

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• I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

  Robert Knepper

  Running, Growing Up, Kids

  "How Robert Knepper Makes Bad Look So Good". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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• It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.

  Maxine Waters

  Home, Gangsta, White

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• I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.

  Gary Reilly

  Bullying, Fake, Needs

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• Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter.

  George Orwell

  Gun, Men, Political

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Military, Believe, Fall

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• Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed.

  Uwem Akpan

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Government, Editors

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• I know I'm not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that's fine with me.

  NeNe Leakes

  Opinion, Fine, Knows

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• Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Pulpit, Enjoy, Preaching

  Theodore Roosevelt (1927). “The Winning of the West: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Our Country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific”

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• Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!

  Betty MacDonald

  Sports, Children, Cat

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• We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hate, Heart, Eye

  "Kingdom of Fear".

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• you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Winter, Cities

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• The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Feet, People, Guy

  "Dyson, Merida React to 'Come On, People'". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2007.

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• There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, People, Together

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• A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

  Keith Olbermann

  Fighting, Needs, Unwilling

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Years, Used, Temper

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• The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Real, Believe

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• All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

  Ariana Grande

  Wish, Celebrate, Can Do

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• The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

  Patsy Cline

  Bullying, Angel, Finals

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• The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.

  Rick Stein

  Bullying, Mean, Survival

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