Bully Quotes - Page 14

• The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.

  Judith Orloff

  Talking, True Power, People

  "7 Habits of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.

  Renee Lawless

  Bullying, Impact, Empowering

  "Putting Life in Perspective: Renée Lawless". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

  Josh Fox

  Powerful, Focus, Important

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it.

  Ariana Grande

  Rainbow, Positive Energy, Trying

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• Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

  Paul Bettany

  Self, Stories, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Government, Comfort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me and my doings than faraway bullies sitting in offices in Washington, and can oppress me far more effectively.

  Henry Spencer

  Office, Sitting, Far Away

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• I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Care, Republican

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• A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Nuclear, Way

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• But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

  Emo Philips

  Team, School, Hair

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• We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.

  Ian McHarg

  Strong, Leaving, Ignorant

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• My media considers the left media to be the bullies on the playground.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Media, He Left Me, Playgrounds

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.

  Neil Young

  Should Have, Stopping, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

  Jeb Bush

  Strength, Thinking, Guy

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• [Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies.

  Peter Steinhart

  Believe, Office, Nurse

  Peter Steinhart (2011). “The Company of Wolves”, p.142, Vintage

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• My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

  Tracy Morgan

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• In terms of bullying, there are so many new laws in America, I am not sure about worldwide, but in America, the laws for bullying are getting strict. And I am really excited of how strict they are and I think it has cut down on a lot of bullying. As a kid I was a bully and I was bullied. I lived both sides of it. To see what is being done with bullying now is super important.

  Tyra Banks

  Bullying, Kids, Cutting

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• I'm super careful with my skin and make sure to protect it. I always sit under an umbrella. And I'm a sunblock bully. If you're on the beach with me, I will spray you down with SPF 50-plus.

  Eva Longoria

  Beach, Skins, Umbrella

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It would be weird for me to be raging against all of the bullies in my life because it would be disingenuous. I've gotten through all of that and I'm living a wonderful life, but that doesn't mean that people aren't mean to me.

  Andy Biersack

  Mean, People, Would Be

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• Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.

  Bo Burnham

  Positivity, People, Want

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Children, Real, Men

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Wisdom, Hero

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

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• Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

  Mike Brown

  Orbit, Neptune, Pluto

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Donald Trump is a bully who thrives on division.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Division, Trump, Thrive

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

  David Suchet

  War, Army, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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