Bullies Quotes

“Bullies - when you pick on someone you think is smaller than you, or weaker than you, think again. That person you pick on may be the next President, the next Tycoon, the next General or someone who one day will own you; think again. And ask yourself, is it worth it? Is it worth being mean to someone when it is worth much more to be nice.”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“Bullies always get bullied themselves. They always get a taste of their own bitter medicine sooner or later. - Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“If someone is badly hurt at some point in life—traumatized—the dominance counter can transform in a manner that makes additional hurt more rather than less likely. This often happens in the case of people, now adults, who were viciously bullied during childhood or adolescence. They become anxious and easily upset. They shield themselves with a defensive crouch, and avoid the direct eye contact interpretable as a dominance challenge.
This means that the damage caused by the bullying (the lowering of status and confidence) can continue, even after the bullying has ended.25 In the simplest of cases, the formerly lowly persons have matured and moved to new and more successful places in their lives. But they don’t fully notice. Their now-counterproductive physiological adaptations to earlier reality remain, and they are more stressed and uncertain than is necessary. In more complex cases, a habitual assumption of subordination renders the person more stressed and uncertain than necessary, and their habitually submissive posturing continues to attract genuine negative attention from one or more of the fewer and generally less successful bullies still extant in the adult world. In such situations, the psychological consequence of the previous bullying increases the likelihood of continued bullying in the present (even though, strictly speaking, it wouldn’t have to, because of maturation, or geographical relocation, or continued education, or improvement in objective status).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“I'm joking," She said to the group. Ah, the joking defense. The tried and true excuse for bullies everywhere.”
― Eileen Cook, The Hanging Girl

“There is something very interesting about bullies that make them special. You see, a bully is a coward; the bully is terribly afraid of the world around him, and he can’t stop himself from being in fear all the time. It is something organic that he can’t control. That is why the bully seems to have no discipline and never listen to authority or authoritarian commands. Now, another very interesting thing about the bully is that, as he is a coward, he needs to erase this feeling of panic of the world, by regaining control over reality. And the only way to do this is by picking the weakest link he can find, that is, the one that will not fight back, the safer victim around. This, however, does not mean that the victim is hopeless, weak or guilty of anything. The bully simply selects a target for his suppressed fear. If the victim reacts, the bully will have to start picking someone else to channel his endless frustrated sense of unworthiness. And although it is true that many people have the potential to be bullies, what makes the bully special is his lack of capacity to control himself, to stop himself or to feel ashamed of his own actions. Actually, the bully enjoys public performances of his cowardice the most, because that is how he feeds his very little ego and very weak personality. That is the only thing that makes his life worthy, for the bully has no sense of self-worth and often considers himself unworthy. As a matter of fact, the bullies that think they don’t deserve to be alive, are the ones telling others to kill themselves. Basically speaking, the weaker a soul, the more suppressive that soul will be towards others.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“We must be kind and forgive one another or we won't survive. But even among the most religious there seems to be a great blind spot covering the world, an inability to learn from past experience. Civilization is as precarious as a sand castle. All the care and effort it took to create it can be knocked down in a second by some bully or another. And the world is full of bullies.”
― Fannie Flagg, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

“REFLECTIONS FROM A MIRROR

Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,
Even if the surface is ugly.
Truthful is he who says what is true,
Even if the truth is ugly.
Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,
Without first weighing the interior.
And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,
Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Patches don’t look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the holes in your soul, like when you patch a sock. When you have a hole in your soul, it’s because you’re hurting from something. I don’t know if you noticed, but that girl had a lot of holes.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“The shadow self is what lies beneath the makeup. It’s those ugly parts that you haven’t accepted about yourself. You hide those parts in the shadows until you’re ready.” Her face remained a haunting calm. “When you realize the scars are who you are, that there was nothing wrong with you and that you were beautiful all along - that’s when you decide to take the makeup off.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Pain and humiliation is always amusing when it happens to someone else.”
― Eileen Cook, The Hanging Girl

“A bully is nothing more than a bunch of bull with a Y attached to its rear.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards, The Goodbye Family Unveiled

“There's always that one group of people who think they have special permission to terrorize anybody who disagrees with them. And then everybody who looks like them suffers.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed

“There’s nothing wrong with you at all. Sometimes people say or do things that are mean because there's something the matter with them. With Lydia, it seems there’s always something wrong with her.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Because I am, just as you are you. We don’t always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“There are times when your body takes control. Times when the gazelle says, ‘Fuck you, lioness,’ and delivers the biggest kick of its whole gazelley life.”
― Harry Bingham

“Insults weren't a problem for him because they were typically made out of fear.”
― Rebekah Frumkin, The Comedown

“Soon, all the children were chanting it. “No school! No school!”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Somehow her hula hoop had cut into the driver’s side door like the vehicle was made of cheese.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“She could spin it between her legs, skip with it, twirl it around her neck and transfer it from one arm to the other. Shelly hooped because she enjoyed it; it calmed her whenever she would have an argument or a bad day at school, and it also allowed her to think. Today, she needed to hoop more than ever.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Shelly shook her head and made sure she had plenty of space so that she wouldn’t hit anything. As many times before, she kept the hoop close to her waist and then twirled it with small, tight bursts of speed. As the hoop gathered in momentum it started to give off a hum that soon took on a light blue illumination far brighter than the streetlamps. It was so bright, that it lit up the entire backyard.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“I’m afraid they’re not coming.” Abby said fearfully. “Our parents, our teachers – everyone! They’ve disappeared. That’s it. Lights out, Shelly. We’re on our own.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Lydia displays her right hand and instantly bathed the room with a blinding light. It lasted only a moment before it drew back into her palm.
“I can fix you if you’re ever broken.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“It’s no big deal. It’s kind of like a tattoo. It won’t hurt, not too much, just a few stitches and it’ll be all over. It’s really interesting how it’s done. You won’t believe where your soul hides. Go on, take a guess. Where do you think it is?”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“In high school, though, if you call someone out on their shit you get bullied. It’s really a horrible time in life. Honestly, I don’t even know why there is an entire genre of books dedicated to it.”
― Sage Steadman, Ann, Not Annie

“Others...are so sure the world is full of nothing but bullies that they become bullies themselves, trying to hit everyone in the world first. But a life of getting in the first shot isn't a life. Not really, anyway.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade

“Are they always so mean?” I asked.

“It’s the oldest story in the book— the bullied become the bullies.”
― David Clawson, My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen

“We didn't want to be bullies, so we decided to forgive and forget and put an end to our attacks.”
― Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go