Bullying Quotes - Page 12

• Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

  James Howe

  Book, Keys, Addresses

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• You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

  RuPaul

  Culture, Obsession, Masculinity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.

  Kevin Spacey

  Suicide, Confused, Teenager

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• No one should be ashamed to speak up. Shame makes it easy for neglect and abuse and bullying to stay huddled together in their dark corner. It’s time to throw the switch on this spotlight. If I can inspire other kids to speak their truth, then everything I’ve been through will have been worth it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Kids, Dark, Inspire

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.121, Penguin

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• It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

  James Patterson

  Strong, Stupid, Sick

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• Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Mind, Alive

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• He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying his brother, and how after that no one had bothered either of them again. 'You have to stick up for yourself,' he told me. 'But it's bad to throw rocks,' I said. 'I know. You're smarter than me. You'll find something better than rocks.

  Nicole Krauss

  Brother, Kids, Rocks

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loyalty, Average, Political

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.39, Basic Books

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• What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Real, Boys

  Diana Wynne Jones (1988). “Witch Week”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Travel, Sight, Self

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• The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

  Rebecca West

  Father, Bully, Unsuccessful

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Cat, Shoes

  Barbara Holland (1989). “Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives”

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• Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Dream, Children, Thinking

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

  J. B. Priestley

  Fashion, Prayer, Long

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• A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

  Edna Ferber

  Hands, Bully, Feds

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• Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state.
  And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons. I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race, on the basis of religion, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. This is actually part and parcel of the agenda that's also going to be front and centre, and that is how are we treating women and girls.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Eye, Gay

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• I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.

  Mark Feehily

  Teenager, Thinking, Impact

  "Jedward look battered and bruised in anti-bullying campaign". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, War, Believe

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

  Mason Cooley

  Boredom, Please, Bores

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• When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. "High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college." But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  School, College, Expression

  "The Messy Reality of High School Hazing" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

  Hank Green

  Jobs, Hands, Two

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• It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality. And I understand why some people would then characterize that, especially people who don't like you, as bullying, but it's not that.

  Chris Christie

  People, Personality, Like You

  N.J. Gov. Chris Christie's news conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice" "Then it should be easy for you," Eric sys. "If you're willing ot take his place.

  Veronica Roth

  Eric, Target, Idiot

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• People don't realize how badly verbal harassment and cyber bullying affects you. I wish they had hit me in the face and gotten it over with, because what they said to me, sticks to me to this day. It affected me into the person that I am today.

  Demi Lovato

  People, Wish, Today

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• The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Children, Years, Agony

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