Name Calling Quotes

• It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

  Martha Finley

  Names, Brain, Weapons

  Martha Finley (2012). “Elsie's Motherhood”, p.68, tredition

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Names, Calling, Levels

  Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

  Daniel Craig

  Passion, Heart, Names

  52 Copy quote

• Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Names, Guy

  "Paul Feig On Women: 19 Awesome Things ‘The Heat’ Director Has Said About Funny Ladies" By Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2013.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

  David Horowitz

  Character, Names, Squash

  47 Copy quote

• There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Names, Labels

  "George W. Bush Makes Campaign Trail Debut For His Brother". www.npr.org. February 15, 2016.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

  Ann Coulter

  Light, Names, Ideas

  9 Copy quote

• Because no matter what happened, I had the peace of mind of knowing that all of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting -\-\ all of it was just noise. It did not define me. It didn’t change who I was. And most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.

  Michelle Obama

  Knowing, Names, Mind

  Tuskegee University Commencement Address, delivered 09 May 2015, Tuskegee, Alabama

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.

  Joan Jett

  Names, Calling, Dialogue

  "Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'". "Day To Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. July 26, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Hurt, Impact, Names

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2010). “Ten Things I Hate about Me”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Names, Decision

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

  Barbara Park

  Hurt, Names, Forever

  Barbara Park (1990). “Beanpole”, Random House Books for Young Readers

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

  Maya Angelou

  Sweet, Names, Smell

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

  William Arthur Ward

  Hate, Men, Names

  12 Copy quote

• No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Believe, Dark, Names

  10 Copy quote

• I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

  Coco Chanel

  Nice, School, Names

  9 Copy quote

• Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.

  Beverly Engel

  Children, Stupid, Selfish

  Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Donald] Trump is obsessed with name calling.

  Hillary Clinton

  Names, Calling, Obsessed

  Source: www.npr.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Generations, Calling

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

  Bill Bradley

  Thinking, Names, Political

  "Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  115 Copy quote

• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

  Emily Murphy

  Leadership, Strong Women, Fighting

  200 Copy quote

• In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing for harmonious living. Those who witness for, present solutions. Those who witness against, usually do not - they dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism and sometimes even name-calling. Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Names, Criticism

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.131, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.

  Criss Jami

  Names, Differences, People

  5 Copy quote