Bully Quotes - Page 7

• Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Insecurity, Cover Ups

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• Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day.

  Jeff Kinney

  School, People, Needs

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• You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

  Joseph Heller

  Hate, Hypocrite, People

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Men, Wish

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• Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Home, Practice

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• When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.

  Ian Mcewan

  Strong, Past, Teeth

  "On Chesil Beach" by Ian Mcewan, December 25, 2006.

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• Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Thinking, Suffering

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• He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. "Bully

  Kelley Armstrong

  Laughing, Legs, Lasts

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• Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorrow can be a bully.

  Amy Waldman

  Sorrow

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• … that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.

  Amos Oz

  Loneliness, Self, Hands

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• To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.

  Mike White

  Voice, Giving, Bullied

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• As for kids who are struggling personally, ignore the bullies! Who cares what they think? A lot of the time, they're not thinking, so you shouldn't take their words to heart. Ignore, ignore, ignore, and keep pushing forward.

  Nolan Gould

  Struggle, Heart, Kids

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• Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

  Damon Albarn

  School, Oasis

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• Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Law, People

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• Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Coward, Cowardice, Found

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.189, Tara Publishing

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• As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

  Jordan Peele

  Kids, Doe, Want

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?

  Marion D. Hanks

  Giving, Joy, Thieves

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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• I don't understand why or how we can bully each other.

  Aurora Aksnes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

  Michael M. Honda

  Bullying, America, Stories

  "Make Bullying History: Stopping Violence Before It Starts" by Mike Honda and Joaquin Phoenix, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights-not only mine, of course, but everyone's. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer.

  Robert Higgs

  War, Responsibility, Men

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• I’d like to fight everybody who wants to make war on people. I’d like to fight bullies, actually. I’d like to stand up to the bullies in this world. I was actually mugged once in London, and I was completely defenseless. They came at me with a… I was held at knifepoint. And I felt so angry that I let them do it and I think I’d like to go back and say ‘Look, it’s okay’, and if they tried to stab me, I could just say ‘You can stop that now’.

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

  Lily Cole

  Bullying, Doe, Bullied

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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