Bully Quotes

• People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

  Demi Lovato

  Hurt, Hate, Names

  "Demi Lovato drops tour for 'emotional and physical' treatment" By Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. November 4, 2010.

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• There are mean people out there, and they're cruel, they're bullies to all kinds of people. Some are based in race; some are based in the way other people look; some of it's politically based. But there's all kinds of it. Everybody goes through life being tormented at times by something. Something as simple as just going through four years of high school can ruin somebody's confidence, just because of things that happened there. The key to it all is being taught how to deal with it and how to not let it mar your own opinion of yourself.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

  Mila Kunis

  Bullying, Printing, Accusation

  "Mila Kunis Talks Dating, Ashton Kutcher, Her Weight and More in Glamour's August 2012 Issue". GLAMOUR Interview, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2012.

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• It's the bully who is insecure.

  Shay Mitchell

  Insecure

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• I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

  Shay Mitchell

  Bullying, Insecure, Being Bullied

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• When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

  Chris Colfer

  Inspirational, Bullying, Hurt

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• It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Denial, Outcomes

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• Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down.

  Demi Lovato

  Mean Girls, Bullying, Ex Boyfriend

  "Demi Lovato's Second Chance". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2011.

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• The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that of the serial bully

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Vehemence, Behaviour

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• My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

  George Weinberg

  Father, Pedants, Eighteen

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• We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Bullying, Pain

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• Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Children, Being Bullied

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• So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Abuse, Patterns

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• The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Effectiveness, Important

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• Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.

  Emily Shanks

  Bullying, Dark, Mind

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• As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

  Charlie Crist

  Pain, Ideas, Today

  "Charlie Crist DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.

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• Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Cancer, Behaviour

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• While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Book, Names

  "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), September 15, 2005.

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• Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Waiting, Promise, Today

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• If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

  Steven Weber

  Lying, Merit, Stealing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.

  Jennifer Echols

  Dog, Boys, Practice

  Jennifer Echols (2013). “Levitating Las Vegas”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Bullying, Thinking, Differences

  "Ellen DeGeneres to Ann Curry: 'I don't like a lot of attention.'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. October 3, 2011.

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• For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, World, Reaching

  "Putin Saves Us From Ourselves". www.wnd.com. March 22, 2012.

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• You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

  Phil McGraw

  Bullying, Home, Violence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

  Joe Nichols

  Bullying, Kids, Trying

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