Quotes About Bullies

#1. 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.

Clarence Darrow

#2. Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Amy Dickinson

#3. I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

Crystal Bowersox

#4. 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.

Chuck Norris

#5. Cullen was a bully. Bullies are cowards. You plant your feet and stay calm, they don't know what to do.

Eric Plume

#6. Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

Ariana Grande

#8. Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance,

Benjamin Carson

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

George Michael

#10. He nodded nervously. 'He looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.'

I stared at him. 'You're scared of bunnies?'

'Blah-hah-hah! They're big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs.

Rick Riordan

#11. No More Dino-BuLLies!

Aunt Eeebs

#12. 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.

Margaret Cho

#13. 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.

Taylor Swift

#14. I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

Tom Felton

#15. Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!

Anne Rice

#16. 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.

Winona Ryder

#17. I've learned one thing about bullies: they won't stop until someone makes them.

Kathleen Brooks

#18. 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

Tim Field

#19. Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because God is there with you and is preparing an army to fight for your right to live.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. I don't like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt, just because they can.

Pittacus Lore

#21. History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.

Howard Jacobson

#22. There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.

Neil Peart

#23. 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.

Ariana Grande

#24. I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

Robert Knepper

#25. Bullies are just frightened people.

Elizabeth Strout

#26. If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.

Chris Crutcher

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

Rosalind Wiseman

#28. That's the way it is with bullies, Grandma told me once. You give them an inch and they'll run you through with a knife.

Benjamin X. Wretlind

#29. Don't play the role of victim AGAIN, just to massage your bullies ego
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J. Yates

#30. The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Bryant McGill

#31. 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.

Megan Fox

#32. bullies the light out of the room.

Ian Caldwell

#33. In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.

Nick Davies

#34. I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.

Kylie Jenner

#35. Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Anna Maria Chavez

#36. Mostly he misses Jutta: her loyalty, her obstinacy, the way she always seems to recognize what is right. Though in Werner's weaker moments, he resents those same qualities in his sister. Perhaps she's the impurity in him, the static in his signal that the bullies can sense.

Anthony Doerr

#37. Bullies didn't care about the truth, they just wanted an easy target.

L. H. Cosway

#38. God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#39. Saf keeps a vast range of bullies on hand at all times.

Kristin Cashore

#40. 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.

Jennifer Echols

#41. Are you being held prisoner right now, or are these bullies on our side?" "They're on our side." Iko

Marissa Meyer

#42. Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

Zoey Deutch

#44. Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

Scylar Tyberius

#45. The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

Gautama Buddha

#46. 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.

Octavia E. Butler

#47. It was the guys who'd been bullied and roughed up for being the smallest in the class. Those guys had learned early how to fight tooth-and-nail, how to survive through any means necessary. And Kade should know. He'd been one of them. They grew up to be more dangerous than any of the bullies.

Tiffany Snow

#48. 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.

Jon Bernthal

#49. People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

Colin Quinn

#50. All bullies are cowards!

Robert Kraus

#51. 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.

George Voinovich

#52. I am inclined to think a Christian would be wise to avoid, where he decently can, any meeting with people who are bullies, lascivious, cruel, dishonest, spiteful and so forth.

C.S. Lewis

#53. 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.

Tom Hiddleston

#54. If I couldn't hide from [bullies], then the next best thing was to blind them with my glorious fabulousness.

Chris O'Guinn

#55. 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.

J.K. Rowling

#56. Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

Robert Webb

#57. As i sat listening to this old man's tale of murder, rape and disposing of a tortured body, i felt a sense of strength deep in my soul that i could accomplish something similar with the bullies who ruined my life at school".

Christopher

Stuart Francis

#58. We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.

Hunter S. Thompson

#59. Bullies are almost always outnumbered by the bullied. We just need to organize.

Ivan E. Coyote

#60. A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

Pierce Brown

#61. If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone.

Gene Wolfe

#62. I tell you, those Spaniards are rank cowards, as all bullies are. They pray to a woman, the idolatrous rascals! and no wonder they fight like women.

Charles Kinglsey

#63. Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why
is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says
people need to shave twice a day.

Jeff Kinney

#64. 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.

Daniel Handler

#65. Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

J.R. Ward

#66. I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

Josh Hutcherson

#67. It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

Robert Reich

#68. I don't want to come across as a victim with a sob story. I've got a fantastic life. I'm not a victim. I thank the bullies out there for making me who I am. Some people become weaker, but the bullies made me stronger.

Kierston Wareing

#69. No one is going to mess with my son or daughter."
She laughed. "You can't assassinate bullies or boys who kiss your daughter."
"Pity.

Maria V. Snyder

#70. Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

Pierce Brown

#71. 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.

Nick Vujicic

#72. 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.

Ariana Grande

#73. Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they're meant to protect?

Louise Penny

#74. 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.

Abraham Lincoln

#75. I mean, bullies are all alike, really. That's why I beat them up. -- Ruby Clyde Henderson

Corabel Shofner

#76. I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.

Nick Vujicic

#77. He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

Carrie Vaughn

#78. Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

Mason Cooley

#79. Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

Dan Savage

#80. Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

Amy Dickinson

#81. 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.

Ian Somerhalder

#82. CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

Tina Brown

#83. 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.

Theodore Roosevelt

#84. Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Philip Zimbardo

#85. Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#86. Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

Bruce Wilkinson

#87. Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart

L. Frank Baum

#88. 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.

Jonathan Swift

#89. 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.

Zac Efron

#90. 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.

Henry Spencer

#91. I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Nicole Anderson

#92. As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

Jordan Peele

#93. Bullies like him were only strong while assured of victory; when faced with anyone more powerful, they turned into fawning sycophants, desperate to prove themselves.

Jordan L. Hawk

#94. But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy ...

Emo Philips

#95. He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.

Bram Stoker

#96. 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.

Rocky Marciano

#97. There were always bullies, but the adults were still in charge. Now? Now the bullies rule. Different game, brother, a whole different game. We play by the bully rules now.

Michael Grant

#98. I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't 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.

Ariel Pink

#99. Every high school I went to, I joined in the middle of the year, so sports helped. But you see a lot of bullies when you move to eight states, I'll say that.

Pierce Brown

#100. But you know what their real problem with me was? I never wanted to be one of them. That's what bothers bullies the most.

Michelle Hodkin