Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Nichols

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.

John Doolittle

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Jonny Gomes

It's always good to get the bully back one day.

Ludovico Ariosto

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Olivia Colman

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Octavia Butler

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Emily Dickinson

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

Joan Jett

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

Emma Roberts

I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!

Laura Bush

A new Iraqi police force protects the people, instead of bullying them,

Joe Barton

as a transparent effort to bully and harass climate change experts who have reached conclusions with which you disagree.

They thought they were going to bully us around. Hey, we're not going to be bullied.

Jack Whitehall

I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought', I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid.

Elton John

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

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.

George Sanders

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

Christopher Hitchens

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Christopher Hitchens

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.

Christina Hoff Sommers

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

Chris Rock

I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

Chris Rock

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

George Michael

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Jessie J

Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are

Jessie J

They're not bullying you because of you,they're bullying you because of how they are

Chris Hayes

The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.

George Carlin

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

Golda Meir

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Gregory David Roberts

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Ian Mckellen

I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.