Bullying Quotes

“I want to scream at him! Do you know how hard it is to always keep your head down? To swallow insults and endure outright threats? And yet I have done so. I thought it proved my toughness. I thought if you saw I could take whatever came at me and still smile, you would see that I was worthy.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Bullying and harassment in the workplace are unacceptable.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Allowing bullying in the classroom is equivalent to excluding learning from the classroom. If bullying is present in the classroom it causes the classroom to not feel like a safe environment, and people do not learn in unsafe environments - except for those things which they feel will ensure their present safety.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to parts of Coulibri that I had not seen, where there was no road, no path, no track. And if the razor grass cut my legs and arms I would think 'It's better than people.' Black ants or red ones, tall nests swarming with white ants, rain that soaked me to the skin - once I saw a snake. All better than people.
Better, better, better than people.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Oh." Her expression falls a little, but she shrugs it off quickly. "The first and foremost vital rule is to never read the comments. That is exponentially more important for anyone who doesn't fit the traditional views on beauty or anyone is marginalized in any way, but the truth is that even the thinnest, most gorgeous models get people being terrible in their comments. Trolls will be trolls.”
― Katee Robert, Electric Idol

“Children learn bullying behavior from adults, but no one talks about this transfer of destructive behavior.”
― Jennifer Fraser, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“When you say someone is cancelled, it's not a TV show. It's a human being.”
― Taylor Swift

“Whether you have been the target of aggressive behavior or the aggressor, this event does not define you. Every day brings a new opportunity to start again.”
― Jessica Speer, Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure

“Because abuse is a cycle, those who now occupy positions of power may well have brains so steeped in normalized bullying and abuse, that they can no longer think clearly.”
― Jennifer Fraser, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“While the bullying paradigm creates destabilizing, fear-inducing, unpredictable conditions, the cornerstone of learning and healthy brain wiring is safety.”
― Jennifer Fraser, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health

“I was hostile, and I had every right to be. Middle school didn't make any sense. If you were mean, people liked you. If you were nice, people were mean. If you teased girls, they smiled and laughed. If you complimented them, they frowned and walked away. If you were bad in class, you were hailed in the hallway. If you were good in class, you were bullied in the locker room. The pretty girls dated the ugly boys, and the only friends you had were the ones you didn't want.”
― Yousef Alqamoussi, Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging

“Don't get caught in the vicious squares of circles.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Okay, now. In the spirit of open minds — try to walk in somebody else's shoes at least once a day. Maybe even twice a day.
What's it like for your poor teachers to have to put up with you rowdy, ill-tempered boys and girls? Just kidding. You're all very nice!
What's it like for the other kids in your class? I'm talking about every single kid in this school! What is school like for them? Please walk in their shoes.
Okay, and what's it like for your moms and dads? They think about you all the time. Especially your moms. Now it's time to think about them.
Another thing. This is kind of earth-shakingly important. If you're a bully — stop it right now!
Being a bully could mean you have stuff to work out at home. So try your best to work it out at home.”
― James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

“Their lack of imagination makes them cruel.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Brodie's Report

“I don’t understand someone like you! You let people create rumors about you! Yes, they set you up, but do you know who gave them the power to do that? You! And your silence! I don’t know who taught you this, but suffering in silence is no way to live, Amelia! How can anyone help you if they don’t even know something is wrong?”
― Eunice Amnell, The Pack Outcast

“Bullying is a form of intimidation”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“I have been accused of being a bully. I think a lot of that stems from precisely my resistance to feel like I need to do the emotional labor of making people feel comfortable about what I’m saying. In particular, as a Latino scholar doing work in bilingual education, I’m particularly resistant to the idea that I need to make white people feel comfortable doing work in bilingual education. I put my work out there. I let it speak for itself. I certainly have never targeted anyone individually and personally insulted them, which is what bullying actually is, right?”
― Nelson Flores

“Sweets or the beats!”
― Steven Magee

“Hurt brains hurt.”
― Jennifer Fraser

“[...] sometimes it's stronger not to show strength, especially when facing someone weaker than ourselves. [...] If we must humiliate another person in order to make ourselves feel big, then we have become very small and scared indeed.”
― Alex Bell, Explorers on Black Ice Bridge

“When Huy was young, his classmates called him "wee wee” because of an unfortunate linguistic coincidence that shaped the part of him that constructs identity beneath a title. When he dwelled on the identity that his name began constructing for him in childhood, a loud American Schoolyard memory of boys and girls yelling "wee wee" at him was dominant, within a mental file full of similar confusion that came back to him as obnoxious, repetitive shaming.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“Había aprendido pronto que si contabas chistes y fingías que no tenías miedo normalmente no te pegaban. Incluso los peores matones te soportaban, te dejaban andar cerca para divertirse" Leo”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied.”
― Jackie Chan

“Who are you texting?" She says this more as a threat than a question. Then she leans over, reads my screen. "Is that Fisher?"
I have not come home to cower to Bitsy's bullying again. This time I draw the line. "Your brazen disrespect of my personal boundaries continues with age, I see.”
― Julie Cantrell, Perennials

“Before 2020, I was naive. I thought that racism, intolerance, supremacism, and bigotry were isolated to the ideals of a tiny, narrow-minded group of people. I was wrong.”
― J.R. Whitsell, First Mover Advantage: A Novel

“You are becoming friends with such a bully. He committed many acts of bullying.”

“So did we.”

“What is that supposed to mean?”

I spent a few minutes explaining Reformation’s history of intolerance against Capacianists–how we threatened and condemned them the same way they have been threatening and condemning us.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Calling someone a bull, beware the horns of a bull.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Why is it always about my being albino? she thought. I never do anything to anyone, but yet they think I'm bad. Her eyes stung as the tears came.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior

“You remember getting noticed in the wrong way more than you remember getting noticed in the right way, you start just wanting to blend in. You start not wanting to be noticed at all.”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud