Top 82 Bashing Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Bashing

#1. Chav-bashing draws on a long, ignoble tradition of class hatred. But it cannot be understood without looking at more recent events. Above all, it is the bastard child of a very British class war.

Owen Jones

#2. A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Graham Coxon

#3. Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Camille Paglia

#4. It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

Avril Lavigne

#5. I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing ... and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

Kevin Sorbo

#6. I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

Nat Wolff

#7. What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.

Pat Buchanan

#8. Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.

Brett Morgen

#9. He didn't have regular email like everyone else. He couldn't afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world.

Kenneth Eade

#10. Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

D. James Kennedy

#11. I thought he was kind of a dick too, but I didn't say so. You're not supposed to join in when someone is bashing his father.

Jenny Han

#12. I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

Ringo Starr

#13. I have a pragmatic suspicion that bashing someone's head in with a golf club is frowned upon in this establishment...

J.C. Wickhart

#14. The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

Conan O'Brien

#15. Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote.

Melina Marchetta

#16. I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.

Christopher Monckton

#17. I'm dying to play a nice guy! No one's willing to cast me. They know I'm all right at bashing people up, but they don't know if I can do the other stuff. And I can.

Ray Winstone

#18. I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

Barry Ritholtz

#19. 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

Joseph Furphy

#20. Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"

Marvin J. Ashton

#21. Bashing out the last note, she turned the guitar to the amp and let the feedback murder everyone's eardrums.

Tim McGregor

#22. Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.

Michele Bachmann

#23. I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.

William Beckett

#24. Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

Frans De Waal

#25. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

Coretta Scott King

#26. A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels ... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion.

Richard Bach

#27. We live in an age where ... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Pat Buchanan

#28. Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'

Paul Arden

#29. Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

Aasif Mandvi

#30. When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

Faran Tahir

#31. And then he bent to kiss her there.
She flinched and bucked, bashing him in the head with her knee.
Ouch.
With a low moan of pain, Logan rolled to the side, clutching his head.

Tessa Dare

#32. Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a road map-and a lifeline-showing how schools can prosper under the most difficult conditions. It is a welcome departure from all the school bashing.

John Merrow

#33. Ahmed Sinai never forgave his son for breaking his toe. Even after the splint was removed, a tiny limp remained. My father leaned over my crib and said, "So, my son: you're starting as you mean to go on. Already you've started bashing your poor old father!" In my opinion, this was only half a joke.

Salman Rushdie

#34. It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.

Jack Leach

#35. When I write my annual tax column, some ex-IRS agent will complain, "There you go IRS bashing again." They're always saying that they're just doing their job. Someone I know once said, "You could get another job."

Dave Barry

#36. Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

Janeane Garofalo

#37. To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.

Cherrelle

#38. Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor ... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

Ross Perot

#39. Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Tom Morello

#40. I've always thought that if little straight boys were taught that the one surefire, telltale sign of repressed homosexuality was the beating and killing of gay men - and the truth is lurking around that idea somewhere - then gay-bashing would shrivel away within a generation.

Wesley Gibson

#41. Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.

Michele Bachmann

#42. Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

Gary Shteyngart

#43. Shut off the internal bashing.

Melody Carlson

#44. (People who tell you that slamming and bashing into things won't make you feel better haven't slammed or bashed enough.)

Rainbow Rowell

#45. Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.

Zig Ziglar

#46. What I really wish is that religious leaders could truly understand what the Bible is and stop trying to use it for hatred. I wish they could just stop hiding behind the Bible and live up to the fact that what they really stand for when they are bashing gays is small-minded bigotry.

Judith E. Snow

#47. Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

Richard K. Morgan

#48. I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

Gore Vidal

#49. A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

Richard Jeni

#50. Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

James Hetfield

#51. You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.

Stephanie Miller

#52. Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#53. I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

Israel Horovitz

#54. She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.

Emma Jane Holloway

#55. Jerry Falwell turned gay bashing into a very successful art form ... the first fundamentalist to exploit the fear and loathing of homosexuals to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and add millions of new donors to his mailing list.

Mel White

#56. One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

Christian McKay

#57. If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

Feist

#58. I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man ... what guy would sign on for that?

Michael Ealy

#59. I'm going to make my life work for me. I'm not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It's my life, which means I get to choose how it goes. Even if that means wrestling it to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying: Take that, life!

Sophie Kinsella

#60. I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.

Norman Finkelstein

#61. Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism?

Przemek Skwirczynski

#62. Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground.

Rick Riordan

#63. I don't like to get involved in any bashing at all.

Kevin Dillon

#64. Kidpool: Seems like we spend a lot of time bashing flunkies. There's no end to them.
Lady Deadpool: They belong to the same union as Stormtroopers and red shirts.

Victor Gischler

#65. Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

Warren Farrell

#66. [H]umans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong:;; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.

Warren Farrell

#67. Awkward. Sorry."
"Don't be," Sadie said. "I'll rather enjoy bashing my brother's face in.

Rick Riordan

#68. There are a substantial number of actual victims - of slavery's aftermath, gay bashing, criminal assault, sexual discrimination, physical abuse - whose genuine grievances are trivialized by victim chic. That is the real tragedy. Van

Ken Wilber

#69. Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.

Rick Scarborough

#70. Their culture is narrowly interbred, and some personal relations border on the incestuous, so they float each other's boat and write almost identical muck-raking stories. Everyone in China knows why they are, and their China-bashing is green-lighting all of us to join the onslaught.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#71. The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

John Denham

#72. There is an element - particularly on social media - where I want to encourage positivity and kindness rather than negativity and bashing of other people. I think that is a way I try to incorporate social responsibility into my life, but I feel like my day to day is pretty average.

Danielle Panabaker