Bully Quotes by Margaret Cho, Lauren Potter, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Bomer, Sara Gideon, Michael M. Honda and many others.
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.
I’ve spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies.
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.
Kids aren’t born to be bullies, they’re taught to be bullies.
I know how to stand up to a bully – but maybe more importantly how to work around a bully.
Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Saf keeps a vast range of bullies on hand at all times.
When someone’s kind of a braggart to the bully… it makes me on edge just because I live that, and I don’t think that’s a model we want for our kids in this country.
I was kind of a bully, even though I’m tiny, 5′ 2″. As a child, I’d boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.
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.
Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn’t want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.
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.
We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.
When you’re confident about something, people can’t bully you about it.
Brave doesn’t spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn’t put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn’t cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn’t pit people against one another. That’s what fear does.
I never want to be an artistic bully, and put myself above anyone else… or be more prestigious than anyone else. You like what you like, and you have to take that as you want it.
A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.
The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.
We are teaching white children to hate themselves. We are teaching nonwhite children that it’s OK to bully and torment white children because of the color of their skin.
Kids should speak to each other. They’re horrid to each other online, they bully each other – they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It’s too much, too young.
Too many days, that awful, despicable, rude, ruthless bully called cancer has knocked on the door of those I love.
Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; “majority rules” and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.
Sometimes it’s easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, ‘Maybe they’re right. Maybe I’m not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.’ But that’s when you should fight the hardest. Now I don’t mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
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.
I grew up watching ‘Superman.’ As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn’t diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
Trump is an intemperate, mean-spirited, lying bully. If a man like that asked you for permission to marry your daughter, what would your answer be? If it’s no, I think it’s obvious we shouldn’t give him the most powerful office on the face of the Earth.
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life’s subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.
I do not intend to use the Surgeon General’s Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.
Every time we refuse to stand up for liberty and our core beliefs as a nation in the face of aggression from the Chinese regime, we legitimize their behaviour and encourage more bully tactics.
With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging – a time-honored political tradition – thrives on the Web.
I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.
I’m not good with bullies and zealots.
Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn’t really work.
A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it’s fun.
Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.
A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.
I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.
I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realize you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
One bully changing their behavior for the better can have a profound effect on many, many lives.
No bully – and Trump is the apotheosis of every bully, ever – is ever satisfied with just one day’s worth of your lunch money.
I went to a mixed school and I can’t remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you’re going to be a bully, you’ll pick on someone who is small. I didn’t bully anybody, and I don’t remember being bullied.
Never bully anyone because Karma has everyone’s address and a motherf**king stamp!
I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.
It’s a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I’m not going to bully him.
[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.
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
I was never the bully: I was always the one trying to clean up the situation.
Donald Trump is a disaster. He is a bully who doesn’t have the curiosity to understand the issues; he contradicts himself repeatedly; his views of the world are an unmitigated disaster for America and for the American people, and I believe that all of this will become clearer with time.
Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn’t mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
I know I’m not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that’s fine with me.
To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.
Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming “the devil made me do it”, they argue “You made me do it”.
I was such a nerd in high school, I didn’t even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
I don’t consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
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.
Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.
For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.
People who troll are people who need love the most. They namelessly, facelessly bully people because they’ve probably never been loved. So it’s even more important to show these people the amount of love you’re capable of.
The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do – it comes from their weakness, not yours.
Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It’s not just about who can beat up to or who’s tougher, it’s who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it’s about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.
We need to forgive – but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That’s the way to address our bullies.
None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.
Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can’t. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn’t want to fight somebody.
You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.
When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media – on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.
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. So I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you’re holding up your end. The only thing that’s bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.
If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?
A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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.
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.
I feel like everyone in life someway or somehow may have been bullied – or may have been a bully.
The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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.
Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.
My sister’s a bully.
At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who’s trying to conquer me, we’re going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.
Even bullies need love.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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
When girls bully, it’s very subtle, and you can’t define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It’s psychological with girls.
You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb!
In my 25-30 years of experience in the markets, just as you cannot have a good relationship with a woman by bullying her, you cannot have a good relationship with the market by trying to bully it or say that you are the king. Market is king.
I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.
The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
He nodded nervously. вЂHe looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.’ I stared at him. вЂYou’re scared of bunnies?’ вЂBlah-hah-hah! They’re big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs.
It’s the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It’s not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It’s the insecure kids.
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)
I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.
… the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.
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.
This question: ‘How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?’ has been with me ever since I was a child.
Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.
When I saw ‘Bully’ and I was 11 or 12 years old I thought I could do this; I could make movies. Larry Clark’s cinematography is very raw. It’s also based on a true story. I think a lot of the movies I like are based on true stories.
I wouldn’t poke fun at someone if they were weak. I wouldn’t bully somebody.
Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.
I’m not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully’s gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That’s just not me. I wanna fight – let’s go! I mean, I’m gonna stand up for myself. That’s just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in.
You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
It is always funny to see a grown man bully get beat up by a little girl or anything.
Instead of fighting to make things better, Matt Bevin has used the governor’s office to bully workers and help his cronies.
Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you’re quite sure what it’s revealing, and then you perform it.
If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn’t solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.
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.
Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don’t get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.
Maybe I’ve got a bully’s face, but I like playing baddies.
Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.
I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo – a Democrat, a real bully, a racist.
When you’re nice, you’re not bullying people. But when you’re kind, you stand up against the bully.
I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
The modern era of feminism relies on a lot of accepted premises. The biggest one is that men are predators, that they’re mean. In their natural state they are brutes, bullies, and that women are endangered at the slightest bit of temper or anger.
People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
I thank every bully I ever had because that’s the only reason I’m here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me – again, if I had any success whatsoever, it’s because these people made fun of me.
People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.
The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to…Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Im afraid that when it comes to the Christian life, and especially the issue of assurance, too many of us adopt the Barney Fife approach. That is, we let the enemy bully us into believing that were only safe as long as were wearing our Christian ‘uniform.’
Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.
I was a class clown, but I’m not a bully.
Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.
Certainly I was a bully. I’m not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.
If you’re secure in yourself, and even if you’re not secure in yourself, you don’t need to bully.
There’s the 7-year-old me that pretended to be Wonder Woman running around the schoolyard. Like, what an incredible thing to imagine that when the bully shows up or the villain, you would be strong enough to do something about it. But, also, you look like Lynda Carter while you’re doing it – like, ‘Oh, my God.’
Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
I always think of the Joker as the ultimate bully. Nothing he says is funny except to him.
Bullies are always cowards.
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it’s global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don’t have a balanced conversation.
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.
I’ve never been called a bully in my life.
I haven’t personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn’t be associated with her because it wasn’t the type of person I wanted to be.
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.
My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
When I was younger, I was always that person that loved to get stuck in. When my mum and grandma used to come and watch me, I used to make sure that I wouldn’t let anybody push me around and not let anybody bully me.
She remembered when they were kids and he’d caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she’d considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.
Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
Every voice with a national bully pulpit that is willing to take on the lies of the anti-cop Left is still vitally important.
America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.
I wasn’t into making classmates laugh – or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn’t too clever but I wasn’t in the bottom group. I wasn’t loud but I wasn’t quiet. I wasn’t a bully and I wasn’t bullied.
People think artists like 50 Cent don’t have charisma, but it’s just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads – and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don’t have to become violent in self-defence.
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
I am a strong advocate for Marco Rubio. I think he is the kind of individual and leader who can expand our party. I heard him in Virginia Beach, and he talked about loving those with whom he disagrees and those who didn’t vote for him. I don’t think that’s in Donald Trump. He is nothing more than a bully.
Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.
It’s wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated to a place where I was safe. And that place was my imagination, books, and television.
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.
Jews, I know you’re God’s chosen people and the rest of us are just ‘whatever’, but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully and someone mentions it, that doesn’t make them anti-Semitic.
A true warrior can only serve others, not himself…When you become a mercenary, you’re just a bully with a gun.
He’s a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.
Bullies say the things they say because they’re unhappy. I also remind myself that what they are saying is not really about me.
I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I’m working with. If I’ve got no confidence in what I’m doing and they don’t provide me with some assurance that we’re doing the right thing then I bully people. I’m a horrible bully.
I see it along our northern border – the importance of security must be balanced with humane enforcement policies that don’t bully schoolchildren who are poised to contribute to our society.
Charter’s merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has’un-cable’ practices they hope to extend.
I don’t know any skinny people who bully fat people. I just know skinny people who use fat people for rides.
Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America’s strengths and shortcomings.
Note to our readers – Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims – 1.6 million members of an entire religion – from entering the U.S.
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
People complain that joking about serious subjects is ‘making light’ of them. Isn’t that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully’s tires.
The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn’t become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.
There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that’s what Voldemort does.
No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.
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.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody would love me, too. I think that’s intrinsic to fantasy – fantasy is fantasy.
I didn’t know my own strength. I wasn’t a bully or anything, but I’d be out playing and end up hurting someone. So I had to sit out or play with older kids.
It’s not my nature to dominate and bully.
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.
It is insufficient to say that my experience as a bully haunts me. Rather, my experience as a bully has been fundamental to the creation of my conscience, because it is what prevents me from making the basic human claim that I am a good person.
I never thought black people would say I wasn’t black enough. It didn’t turn me into a bully – it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.
Trolls want reactions. Don’t become a bully because they’re bullying you!
I’ve realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don’t say anything. Speak up!
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that’s trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that’s nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, you know, who was one of the authors of U.S. dominance, he’s changed his mind, you know, and he’s saying now we’ve got to learn to cooperate with other world powers. We are not the bully in the schoolyard here.We’ve got to deal with them. And that’s my feeling.
Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.
I was bullied a lot in middle school, and my bullies have since all apologized.
My media considers the left media to be the bullies on the playground.
Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.
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.
A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don’t focus on the little things. But that’s the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success
It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
Technology is a double-edged sword for sure. You can use it to get in touch with somebody, to get to know somebody, to have really meaningful conversations, or you can use it to hurt and bully people.
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.
My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you’re jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there’s a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.
Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They’re bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.
We are all told to ignore bullies. It’s something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn’t mean you learn it. It doesn’t mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He’s a bully who wants to micro-manage people’s lives by mandate, not persuasion.
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.
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
I think it’s obvious why someone wouldn’t personally want to see these words on their feed, but I’m also concerned about the overall negative environment created when the comment section becomes a battleground for people to bully each other. I signed up for this.
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.
Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.
I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there’s always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
Neptune controls Pluto’s orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.
Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he’ll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had.
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don’t lose that.
Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse – except August.
You have to bully a guy like Fury – notice I don’t call him ‘Tyson.’ Truthfully you have to run up on a big guy like Fury and pummel him. He’s the type of guy who’s strong and determined but he’s slow. His awkwardness is his positive.
There is a real effort to bully women out of public spaces and offline with violent intimidation. That issue speaks not just to casual sexism, which is more common, but actual, violent hatred of women by some.
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren’t incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they’re going too far.
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.
I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that’s tepid. I just don’t think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We’re going to have to have incentives in here.
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.
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
Unfortunately, there’s a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won’t stop. That’s what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.
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.
One of the great attractions of patriotism
A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.
When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid.
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn’t like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.
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.
Bullies are just ignorant.
People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote for the bully. It’s so strange.
When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.
You can’t have a bully without a victim.
The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.
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.
When you’re a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I’m not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
I never caught on to being a bully.
I used to think Janhvi was a quiet girl, but she is a big bully.
When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.
I do not at all have the mind of a bully… in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.
Amazon’s capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.
If you’re gay, that doesn’t mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don’t want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.
Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.
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.
The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.
In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by using humor. It’s amazing how you can blend in with that.
No need to bully, start fights, talk trash, or hate on anyone because they are different.
I was very fortunate and didn’t personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.
I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today, I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my shows.
America is a bunch o’ bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn’t dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.
I appreciate the power of a White House bully pulpit – but kids listen and learn primarily from other kids. If your son’s friend tells him that the apple is better than the fries, he’s more likely to listen.
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.
At any Trump rally, the Trump supporters were peaceful. They were enthusiastic. They loved America. They were excited. They were pro Trump. They were not bullies. They were not angry. They were not doing anything unless they were provoked.
Shouldn’t homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice – you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
If you let a bully intimidate you, he’s going to do it again. You’ve got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.
You know, for a normal kid it might be how to ask somebody out on a date or how to deal with the SATs or just how to deal with the bully down the block. And the X-Men have the conflict of Magneto or aliens or what-have-you.
It’s difficult to expect kids not to bully one another when they don’t have many examples otherwise in society.
Where London’s column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.
I don’t like injustice. We’re living in a time where, whether it’s the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We’re just grown-up bullies.
Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.
A lot of fighters, Cruz got under their skin. The guy’s a dork and he tries to be a bully.
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.
I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.
All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.
One of the most horrifying and surprising evolutions we have witnessed among our widespread campus network is the rapid movement away from tolerating opposing ideas and respectful debate to the deployment of obscene bully tactics from the left.
The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.
Part of the problem is that we don’t have enough Democrats that will actually stand toe-to-toe with this bully Donald Trump and fight for the rights and values of this republic.
You can’t stand for too many things. You can’t use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.
Government’s power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
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.
Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it’s like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up….what was once just ‘forcing everyone to agree with my opinion’ is now ‘forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
You stand up to bullies. Don’t shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
Because I’m not blind to how Harry works, you know,” she said. “A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully.” She sighed, annoyed. “He’ll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.
I feel passionately about issues, and I don’t hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don’t. […] But I am not a bully.
A bully is a bully, and it’s important that you stand up to them.
I was a bully while growing up.
I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.
There’s something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you’re on your own. But don’t keep things inside, it’s really damaging if you do.
You can either hope and pray you don’t get picked on, or you can, in a way, almost make yourself a bigger target, because it’s harder to bully something that’s really big. It’s easy to bully something that’s small and frail.
I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground. Then I realized, Oh god, my career’s going nowhere, so I looked in the Yellow Pages and phoned up the first cheap studio that I found and started recording.
I don’t think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.
None of us should play party to any corporate warfare. We cannot become pawns in the hands of corporate giants’ warfare to constantly bully the government, to throw misinformation to the public, tell part-truth and part-story to the public.
Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected.
I want to take on fighters like Jeremy Stephens, Andre Fili… get ourselves into the Octagon and see if these guys can bully me.
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.
When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That’s what gave me the courage.
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn’t one of the bullies – I wasn’t strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won’t mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.
I hate a bully, and I hate racists.
It’s so funny: at ‘SNL,’ Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
It’s always good to get the bully back one day.
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
When you’re a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I’m not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
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.
I’m so old… when I was a kid, in order for someone to bully, they had to be bigger and stronger and more intimidating than the people they were bullying. Now with social media and Facebook and Twitter and all those other things, anyone can bully somebody.
People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn’t. It was written by the bullies.
Everyone knew I was home-schooled. Everyone always said I was weird, and they’re kind of right. And I think people can always tell that I’m a weak link. So if you are going to bully someone, I’m an easy target.
I don’t want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.
The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at ‘The View’ don’t want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.
Be sure of yourself, don’t let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.
But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But then people distort it and use it as an excuse to be a bully. It’s sad, but that’s the way it’s worked for a several thousand years now.
Actually I feel sorry for the bully because they probably don’t have love and support at home.
When people don’t like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.
I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun of-when people point out your weaknesses, it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.
I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it’s not.
Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.
I don’t like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt just because they can.
I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it’s not bullying. It’s just warfare.
Bullies are often people who are shy and can’t make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie ‘A Bronx Tale’ tells us, it is better to be feared if you can’t be loved.
I’ve always been the biggest bully to myself.
Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.
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.
Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn’t mean anything. I don’t think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.
In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.
When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I’d shout, ‘Ha!’ and he’d be on the ground in a headlock.
With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice – he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don’t want a team of son-in-laws.
When Matt Bevin tried to bully teachers and illegally cut their pensions, I proudly stood with them to fight back and win.
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.
With acting, I’ve always gotten by in life acting in situations. I’m a small person. I didn’t have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
Planets are the big bullies of the planetary system that are, that basically ignore everybody else around them. And everybody else has to deal with the planets. Those are what the planets are.
The problems of reporting a bully – or, if you are a bully, of becoming less of one – become much more intractable, because your reputation surrounds you, and behavioral patterns are harder to escape.
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words ‘climate change’ in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
I am who I am, but I am not a bully.
There’s only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.
We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.
There are more ways to bully each other now with the Internet but there are also more ways to talk about it and more people that you can reach and more connections to be made over the Internet.
I’m known as the ankle bully, and I’m the CEO of it because I’ve made a lot of people fall during my lifetime.
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.
Negotiation is empathy. It’s almost trite to say that if you can’t put yourself in the seat of the other person you’re speaking with, you’re not going to do well. It’s not about being a bully, not about making offers people can’t refuse.
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it.
Bullies are ultimately unhappy people who try to inflict pain and hate on others and are to be pitied. Once you realize that, their words can no longer hurt you.
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.
I don’t feel the need to defend myself anymore – I am a woman. I feel differently and I think differently than a man. If you’re going to bully me or laugh at me because something makes me emotional – you go right ahead because that’s what makes me a woman, and I don’t want to be anything but that.
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
A bully is going to be a bully, and you have to stand up for yourself. You can’t expect everyone else is going to come and run to your aid. You have to stand your ground; that’s very important.
America has an identity crisis. This is a relatively new country compared to the rest of the world, yet it’s the bully that fronts to know war and democracy like none other, therefore leading the global arbitration on both fronts.
Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don’t shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
We can’t leave the internet to the bullies. You deserve to speak out and be heard just as much as the next man. Don’t let bullies silence you. Support others, and make sure you look after yourself.
Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?
The Million Dollar Man was to professional wrestling what Ebenezer Scrooge is to Christmas. He was like a rich bully. He bullied everybody with his money, and his motto was ‘Everybody’s got a price.’
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn’t know anything.
Don’t everlastingly read messages into paintings – there’s the Daisy – you don’t rave over or read messages into it – you just look at that bully little flower – isn’t that enough?
