Bullying Quotes - Page 3

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

  Chris Rock

  Mean, Ifs

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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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• I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

  Keith Richards

  Moving, School, Men

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• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Laughter, Business

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Pain, Inspiration, Long

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial model. To be successful in these fields, bullying behaviour is almost a prerequisite.

  Tim Field

  Successful, Government, Law

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• Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."

  Cilla Black

  Gay, Blood, Childhood

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• According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.

  Robert Klein

  Teacher, New York, Children

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• I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me in public and wounded me in private, your noble face hid your filthy ways, and your sorrow was but laughter.

  Jenny Jay

  Laughter, Husband, Hate

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• Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok.

  Megan Fox

  School, Insecure, Issues

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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

  Thinking, Differences, Creating

  "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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• If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

  Susane Colasanti

  Being Bullied, Hard, Ifs

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.14, Penguin

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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Conceited, Mind

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Thinking, Desperate Situations

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Not Caring, Religion

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• Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the fly swatter in my hand and shows me how to do it: grab their wrists, and whack the plastic handle over their pink baby palms. She stands in the doorway of their room until I can crack hard enough to make them scream.

  Julie Gregory

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

  Courtney Summers

  Lines, Variation, Bullied

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.186, Macmillan

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• I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.

  Clarence Day

  School, Unique, Envy

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• Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

  Saadi

  Pain, Heart, Hands

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• The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"

  Quentin Crisp

  Gay, Phones, Numbers

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• By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

  Albert Ellis

  Wise, Kids, Caring

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• Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

  Morgan Brittany

  Snakes, Spite, Persons

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• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Dog, Hero

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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