![It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-defending-salmon-rushdie-was-if-i-can-phrase-it-like-this-a-matter-of-ever.jpg)
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bullying thinking knows
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
bullying phones cells
I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there. Chris Colfer
bullying hurt thinking
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.
bullying people personality
It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality. And I understand why some people would then characterize that, especially people who don't like you, as bullying, but it's not that. Chris Christie
bullying reality views
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's. Kurt Vonnegut
bullying kids trying
I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell. Beyonce Knowles
bullying powerful voice
Let me tell you right now, you are not alone. Seeking help requires incredible strength and courage. The most powerful weapon you have against bullying is your voice, Derek Hough
bullying boys emotional
Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion,
bullying pain kids
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain. Cat Cora
hate envy coward
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
hate hatred pity
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
hate pride men
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
hate air giving
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.
hate half world
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
hate men love-hate
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
hate anger racism
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
hate men thinking
Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed. Charles Spurgeon
hate waffles managers
The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that. Alan Pardew
expression games people
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game. Alan Watts
expression freedom-of-speech given
I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control. Alan Bennett
expression who-i-am kind
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do. David Sanborn
expression dies
That'll be the day when I die. Buddy Holly
expression spirituality achieve
Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good Brunello Cucinelli
expression worry soul
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. Jack Kerouac
expression old-habits together
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. Charles Kuralt
expression choices needs
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need. Ai Weiwei
expression needs purpose
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.