Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Eric Hoffer

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

Jon Rubin

Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a goddamn brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in

Jon Cryer

There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

Victims of bullying are not the only ones to suffer greatly from these practices, it often results in increased absenteeism and lost productivity.

Robert Kiyosaki

Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.

Robert Kiyosaki

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.

Randy Harrison

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

Rick Santorum

The left, unfortunately, participates in bullying more than the right does. They say they're tolerant, and they're anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them and support traditional values.

Roy Keane

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

Rosalind Wiseman

When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college. But its true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.

Rosalind Wiseman

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

Rosalind Wiseman

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

Stefan Molyneux

(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

Whoopi Goldberg

Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.

Whoopi Goldberg

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Ugo Betti

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Robert Winston

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Rebecca West

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Ryan Lewis

The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.

Richard Louv

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

Robert Carlyle

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Roger Scruton

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Roger Ebert

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Zachary Quinto

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

Zac Efron

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.

Salman Rushdie

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.

Kenny Wormald

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Katy Perry

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Lady Starlight

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Sandra Cisneros

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.