Bullying Quotes

‘Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.’ – Raini Rodriguez

‘Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.’ – Madelaine Petsch

‘I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.’ – Shay Mitchell

‘You can’t be against bullying without actually doing something about it.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘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

‘We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.’ – Sanam Saeed

‘It’s very important to choose kindness and stop bullying.’ – Jacob Tremblay

‘Bullying has always been around and there will always be people who thrive on the hurt they cause to others.’ – Trisha Paytas

‘Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic – the strong attacking the weak.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘Don’t give in to bullying or others making fun of people. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your friends. Be that one person who is genuinely good-hearted.’ – Michelle McCool

‘Bullying is so common that it’s viewed as almost ‘normal,’ but it should never be.’ – Choi Si-won

‘Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.’ – Anna Maria Chavez

‘I think bullying is for insecure and weak people.’ – Latto

‘Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘When you’re nice, you’re not bullying people. But when you’re kind, you stand up against the bully.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.’ – Alicia Garza

‘Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.’ – Lady Gaga

‘Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.’ – Katherine Jenkins

‘Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.’ – Cat Cora

‘Bullying can happen as an adult, it can happen as a child, in college, or your work place, everywhere.’ – Porsha Williams

‘My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it.’ – Lizzie Velasquez

‘I think bullying in general is for cowards.’ – Eddie Alvarez

‘Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over – bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it’s a whole different set of colors.’ – Martin Kove

‘Bullying is not going to make your mom proud. It’s not going to pay your bills. It’s nothing to be proud of.’ – DeSean Jackson

‘The weird thing was that while the bullying was happening, I thought I was doing something wrong, that I was the bad person. Now I understand it wasn’t like that at all.’ – Kelly Gale

‘I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people – in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is – the sooner it will stop.’ – Jason Priestley

‘Bullying is a national epidemic.’ – Macklemore

‘In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It’s hugely prevalent, all too often ignored – and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.’ – Trudie Styler

‘I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn’t beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t cool. I wasn’t part of the ‘Terminator’ franchise.’ – Tom Felton

‘Bullying happens at all ages and levels.’ – Ralph Macchio

‘I get bullied for my size, my weight, and my look constantly. It’s something that I’m glad we touched on in WWE. I’m glad we touched on it because it’s real: it’s something that happens in real life to kids all the time, especially in the age of cyber bullying.’ – Nia Jax

‘At my direction, the Department’s Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.’ – Betsy DeVos

‘Bullying leaves permanent psychological scarring and young people become adept at learning what hurts, verbally and psychologically. Looks, personality and status are all easy targets, and particularly difficult to change.’ – Dawn Foster

‘There’s so much bullying, and there’s so much negativity on social media.’ – Jamie Chung

‘A lot of us have done bullying and didn’t even realize we did it.’ – Dash Mihok

‘I have experienced a lot of online bullying because I am homeschooled.’ – JoJo Siwa

‘When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid.’ – Troy Deeney

‘We don’t need more bullying, and I’m tired of it.’ – Cindy McCain

‘I will not put up with bullying and harassment – certainly not after the experiences I’ve had.’ – Lady Colin Campbell

‘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.’ – Katy Perry

‘Cyberbullying isn’t real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They’ve got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.’ – Milo Yiannopoulos

‘It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone’s life.’ – Shane Koyczan

‘I go to schools in L.A., and I teach lessons. I run with the girls and teach them things about bullying and gossip. For instance, we’d play things like telephone, where you can actually see how words get twisted.’ – Peyton List

‘There’s a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don’t have to push back as much as they would in real life.’ – Bridgit Mendler

‘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.’ – Kenny Wormald

‘No one tells you that when you get older sometimes you never escape the bullying. I had no idea people could be as mean as they are when you’re an adult.’ – Tess Holliday

‘I would love to see less trolling and bullying on social media in 2021. If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ – Dorit Kemsley

‘Bullying needs to have more attention, and there needs to be more open communication in schools to make kids feel comfortable enough to speak up.’ – Lizzie Velasquez

‘Think of Donald Trump’s personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as ‘The Donald.’ He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn’t because he had attributes we admired.’ – Mitt Romney

‘America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.’ – Felix Dennis

‘Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.’ – Robert Carlyle

‘We always talk about bullying, bullies; that is what social media is. It’s just people we gave a voice to who didn’t deserve to have a voice.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I’d like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!’ – Bella Thorne

‘I don’t really go with the crowd. I’m the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls.’ – Michaela Coel

‘We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common – which is – we all want to be happy.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘I don’t believe in bullying in any form, but especially not on my children.’ – Damon Dash

‘If you’ve witnessed bullying or if you’re being bullied, tell somebody you trust. Tell mom and dad. Tell your counselors or your coaches. Tell your teachers. Tell an adult who you trust.’ – Stephanie McMahon

‘Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can’t. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn’t want to fight somebody.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘My father, Reginald Francois, was a D-Day veteran. He never submitted to bullying by any German, and neither will his son.’ – Mark Francois

‘The bullying was so bad that I got to go to the arts high school instead.’ – Justin Tranter

‘Bullying has changed a lot through the years.’ – Justin Prentice

‘It’s a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I’m not going to bully him.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression.’ – Jennifer Ashton

‘Almost every woman I’ve met has encountered bullying.’ – Paige Spiranac

‘Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.’ – Pat Buchanan

‘The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.’ – Sarah McBride

‘Maybe it’s stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.’ – David Horsey

‘Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It’s not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.’ – Imelda Staunton

‘If you can help it, don’t be rude to people. When you’re rude about someone and the audience laugh you can’t deny that it’s a bullying laugh.’ – Michael McIntyre

‘Everybody experiences bullying in some way. It’s not right, so we should stop it.’ – Milly Shapiro

‘Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.’ – Mike Honda

‘When so-called child’s play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.’ – Linda Sanchez

‘I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘Bullying in 2015 has a whole new look. It doesn’t ever end. It’s 24/7.’ – Lizzie Velasquez

‘Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.’ – Andy Biersack

‘I don’t like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It’s so cheap.’ – Olivia Colman

‘Obviously, I’m against bullying, but it does happen.’ – Scott Hall

‘I have a problem with bullying.’ – Cindy Morgan

‘Bullying wasn’t okay in elementary school and it isn’t okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.’ – John Doolittle

‘Bullying will eventually end if we all decide to stop it.’ – Choi Si-won

‘One of the big factors in me going to an independent school was the bullying at junior school. But it wasn’t an easy choice for my parents. And now, I do have issues with independent schools.’ – Alice Roberts

‘For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.’ – Shane Koyczan

‘If you’re having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don’t know you. They don’t have the right to have an opinion on you.’ – Maisie Williams

‘When I write nonfiction, it’s always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.’ – Jamaica Kincaid

‘I once termed my sense of dress as ‘urban farmer’ and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.’ – Alexander Gilkes

‘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.’ – Randy Harrison

‘The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.’ – Julian Clary

‘The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.’ – Jon Voight

‘The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.’ – Susannah York

‘Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.’ – Zachary Quinto

‘I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.’ – Julianne Hough

‘I don’t consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.’ – George Michael

‘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.’ – Jon Cryer

‘Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.’ – David Oyelowo

‘Beatbullying’s ‘The Big March 2012′ is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.’ – Katherine Jenkins

‘But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it’s America’s bullying foreign policy they detest.’ – Harry Browne

‘I haven’t personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn’t be associated with her because it wasn’t the type of person I wanted to be.’ – Amber Riley

‘Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, ‘Identity Thief,’ and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right ‘ism’ for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay.’ – Josh Gad

‘As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there’s no screaming, there’s no shouting, there’s no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.’ – Lorenzo di Bonaventura

‘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 it’s true – as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.’ – 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.’ – 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

‘Online bullying has to stop.’ – LeAnn Rimes

‘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.’ – Robert Winston

‘At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.’ – Anna Maria Chavez

‘Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.’ – Richard Louv

‘Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You’ve got to be taught to hate.’ – Roger Ebert

‘That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it’s just bullying.’ – Mila Kunis

‘It’s no surprise that the Bush administration’s bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.’ – Graydon Carter

‘Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.’ – Lady Starlight

‘When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government’s economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.’ – Amity Shlaes

‘One of the things I don’t like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It’s kind of bullying – it’s very big, it’s very flashy, it’s got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.’ – Alan Moore

‘The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook’s privacy bullying.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘Those in powerless positions aren’t about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.’ – Margaret Heffernan

‘When someone is bullying you, don’t let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.’ – Kaitlyn Dever

‘People don’t understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and a lot of people not understanding.’ – Romeo Miller

‘I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don’t think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied – whether it’s cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.’ – Sammi Hanratty

‘We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they’re informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.’ – Kirk Cameron

‘A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it’s also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.’ – Adam Ostrow

‘The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I’m glad about. I’d rather be that than a bully.’ – Lily Cole

‘Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.’ – Michael Steger

‘When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.’ – Jason Mraz

‘People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.’ – Bridgit Mendler

‘For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a ‘rite of passage’ and by asking students to simply ‘get over it.’ Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let’s break this silence and end school bullying.’ – Linda Sanchez

‘Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other ‘isms’ that cause so much suffering in the world.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything – it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.’ – James Corden

‘There’s so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can’t come out, and they don’t know what to do. And it’s something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was – I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, ‘You know what? This is who I am.” – Tabatha Coffey

‘Often I think bullying – especially in its adult, verbal forms – is the sort of thing you don’t realize till the end of the day, and it’s a horrible feeling to realize something wasn’t just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we’re all capable of – of things that are breathtakingly cruel.’ – Liane Moriarty

‘I’ve always been a big guy, whether it’s been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of… I guess the term would be ‘popular.’ I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you’d think a fat kid might have to deal with.’ – Jim O’Heir

‘There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an ‘Austin & Ally’ episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.’ – Raini Rodriguez

‘Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there’s teasing and there’s name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there’s serious bullying, and then there’s actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can’t put it all under the tent of bullying.’ – Julianne Moore

‘I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they’re not doing… I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn’t have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it’s all over the Internet.’ – Nelly

‘When girls bully, it’s very subtle, and you can’t define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It’s psychological with girls.’ – Natalie Dormer

‘I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘I don’t know that there’s more bullying or whether it’s just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there’s been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it’s something that people are talking about.’ – Susanne Bier

‘I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘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

‘If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.’ – Chris Crutcher

‘The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.’ – Hunter King

‘I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn’t because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.’ – Rebecca Stead

‘The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that’s willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.’ – Lynn Schusterman

‘For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.’ – George Vecsey

‘Often, I think bullying – especially in its adult, verbal forms – is the sort of thing you don’t realize till the end of the day, and it’s a horrible feeling to realize something wasn’t just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we’re all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.’ – Liane Moriarty

‘I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach.’ – George Osborne

‘Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out – whether that person is a celebrity or a ‘nobody’ – it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.’ – Donna Brazile

‘For too long, Gov. Cuomo has led with fear, intimidation, and bullying.’ – Chris Gibson

‘At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns – not a cold and bullying prison – it’s a place of infinite jest.’ – Ilan Stavans

‘We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.’ – Victoria Pendleton

‘A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted ‘The Bake Off’ to be an antidote to that.’ – Mary Berry

‘I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I’d get punched, spat at, terrible things.’ – David Oyelowo

‘With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it’s common sense when you’re raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.’ – Eric Church

‘I don’t just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea’s greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.’ – Tyler Perry

‘I have, from time to time, stopped using it for books, when they pissed me off about something – the negotiation with Hachette, for instance. I thought that was outrageous bullying, and I discontinued using Amazon for books. I did use it for socks, but I didn’t use it to buy books.’ – Sonny Mehta

‘I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it’s not bullying. It’s just warfare.’ – Tilman J. Fertitta

‘I don’t know that there’s any rhyme or reason to bullying… it’s not even the bully’s fault, which is why it’s such a difficult thing to combat.’ – Dove Cameron

‘It’s important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it’s even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!’ – Normani Kordei

‘I don’t know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it’s very similar to other places.’ – Jay Asher

‘One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country – poor communities, rich communities – everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It’s pretty widespread.’ – Jay Asher

‘Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, ‘Yeah, it’s just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.’ You know you’re not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that ‘just happens.” – Jay Asher

‘Blood must not have blood… I don’t stand for anyone bullying bullies.’ – Ricky Whittle

‘Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.’ – Bob Beckel

‘Why are brown women bullying brown women for body hair? Why are brown women bullying brown women for the same traits we all have?’ – Rupi Kaur

‘Bullying has existed forever. Everyone has dealt with it, and teenagers, regardless of where they are, are dealing with the same stuff growing up.’ – Katherine Langford

‘When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, ‘zebra’ or ‘cow,’ so it was really hard growing up.’ – Winnie Harlow

‘Unlike cricket, where I reached the top solely down to my own efforts, cancer was not a one-man battle. This time, I couldn’t have done it on my own. Without the support and bullying encouragement of my wife Rachael, I would not be here now.’ – Geoffrey Boycott

‘I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.’ – Mark Foster

‘I’m passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues.’ – Lily Collins

‘We need to get rid of bullying. We need to get rid of abuse. We need to get rid of harassment. We need to get rid of the casting couch. Instead, we need to build the bench.’ – Nancy Dubuc

‘In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation’s immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution.’ – Luis Gutierrez

‘I think scary movies work best when they’re relatable, and I think one of the scariest things to young people now is bullying. Either doing it, being on the other end of it, being caught doing it.’ – Jason Blum

‘My grandmother was the matriarch. I was the youngest of all the men in my family, so I kind of used them as examples and kind of emulated what I saw them do. So I didn’t have to deal with a lot of bullying because we had a lot of back-up, so to speak.’ – IronE Singleton

‘My role is really just to try to make sure that the voice of all shareholders and employees is heard – that no one is bullying their agenda, their choice of a CEO, or their selection of who should be the board members. Benchmark, I believe, has been pushing their agenda at the expense of those stakeholders.’ – Shervin Pishevar

‘Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined ‘bullying’ can themselves constitute a form of bullying.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated – it’s time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum wages on which people can live with dignity, and safe and secure work.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don’t hesitate to report and block.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It’s really interesting, what that means. It still confuses me slightly, you know; someone’s getting quite brutally bullied on stage and people are laughing. I think it’s very hard being young.’ – Jack Thorne

‘I have seen girls tackle every single big problem from cancer to lead poisoning to climate change to homelessness to bullying in schools. There is literally no problem that we can’t solve.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘As a child, I just found a lot of things quite difficult. I found school quite overwhelming. There were just too many people. I wish I could have gone to a school with about five people. And if I saw someone bullying someone else, for example – I don’t mean because I’m a perfect person, because I’m really not – but I’d always be, ‘Well, why?” – Julia Davis

‘I woke up one day and thought, ‘Enough is enough with bullying myself.’ The war is within you, and that’s also where it’s won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.’ – Keala Settle

‘I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.’ – Darby Stanchfield

‘When people told me that I couldn’t do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.’ – Ashley Nell Tipton

‘I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.’ – Ashley Nell Tipton

‘With ‘Sierra,’ this mean girl had all these kids bullying me – and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville.’ – Maddie Marlow

‘I really think there are many great organizations out there getting the word out about LGBT youth and bullying, but GLAAD has this way of making sure the stories about gay people are sent out and heard and not covered up, and I like that.’ – Elvis Duran

‘Being culturally ambiguous and having to deal with bullying made me strong and independent.’ – Shanina Shaik

‘I’m so old… when I was a kid, in order for someone to bully, they had to be bigger and stronger and more intimidating than the people they were bullying. Now with social media and Facebook and Twitter and all those other things, anyone can bully somebody.’ – Dan Donovan

‘Any sort of bullying is a terrible thing, but I think online bullying is so much worse because it’s psychological bullying.’ – Dean Cain

‘When I was a teacher, I definitely noticed bullying happening, and I noticed people choosing to be quiet when they should speak up. And so for me, as a teacher, it wasn’t just about advocating for students who were being picked on but trying to teach the bystanders how to speak up and not be afraid.’ – Natasha Rothwell

‘I’m super grateful that there wasn’t social media when I was a kid, but that sort of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It’s bullying. It’s the comments here and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don’t even mean to be a mean-spirited comment, but they’ll just kind of say it to you in passing.’ – Amy Schumer

‘The one-word story about why I have a chip on my shoulder is ‘bullying.” – Chris Gethard

‘Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what’s to come if he is elected.’ – Max Joseph

‘Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn’t conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.’ – Mike Cernovich

‘I’ve had a righteous streak since as long as I can remember. I never tolerated bullying from kids or authority, no matter the case. I got into trouble for calling things how I saw it in my early years at Catholic school, but I couldn’t help myself.’ – Tara Stiles

‘I feel like – I know I talk about it all of the time. Body issues, online bullying, it is a thing. People go through it.’ – Alexa Bliss

‘Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.’ – Skepta

‘I try and make myself or consenting people I am very close to the victims of my comedy. I don’t enjoy bullying masquerading as comedy.’ – Greg Davies

‘Bullying has been around since humans have been around, I think. I think it is wrong.’ – India Eisley

‘I don’t know about bullying and all of that stuff. That doesn’t work in basketball.’ – Kenny Smith

‘As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn’t look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.’ – Mustafa Ali

‘When I became a part of Be a STAR and now with Do Something coming together with WWE, we have a much further range and bigger reach to get the message of anti-bullying and the effects of bullying out there.’ – Sheamus

‘I’m on the phone 24/7 with my kids talking to them about the ups and down of life, schoolwork, bullying, the great times.’ – Bret Michaels

‘Everybody’s going to have their own tolerance toward ribbing or bullying or whatever. If somebody’s more sensitive, then you can’t rib them as much.’ – Scott Hall

‘You look at teams in college, the MMA world, and beyond that allow bullying, where guys get jealous during training and stuff like that. You need to have a space where everyone feels like they have an equal opportunity – like they have support, people watching out for them.’ – Urijah Faber

‘I’m the poster child for cyber bullying. It’s hurtful.’ – Mahira Khan

‘As women, we need to give the right upbringing to our sons so that they respect, protect, and help the weaker sex instead of bullying them.’ – Raveena Tandon

‘Football is such a traditionalist sport. Whatever happened in the past is usually going to continue. But the bullying has no place in any sport. That’s the bottom line.’ – Zach Ertz

‘At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers’ eye and being bullied for it.’ – Mel Giedroyc

‘Everyone experiences bullying at some point – there are always older kids who think it’s cool to pick on the younger kids.’ – DanTDM

‘The neighbor’s kid was bullying my kid. Crossing the line. Threatening him all the time. I went over there to tell him what was going on. I had on flip-flops. I wasn’t there to fight. It was a misunderstanding between a couple of dudes where one thing led to another.’ – Rex Ryan

‘As much as any other producer in the modern movie age, Harvey Weinstein has been a subject of media fascination. The grossness, the bullying, the unbridled exercising of personal power, the craven appetites, the awards and his good taste in films fed that fascination.’ – Michael Wolff

‘I was on a basketball team as a kid, and there were two twins who were a little older and a little bigger than I was, and there was some bullying going on there.’ – Justin Prentice

‘Secondary school was a lot harder. That was probably my hardest time. Some of the girls were really nasty. I had to move schools because of the bullying there.’ – Zawe Ashton

‘Bullying is a topic that’s been close to my heart for a while.’ – Cody Simpson

‘People feel so much more comfortable bullying behind a screen than in person. It gives them a mystique and makes them say things that they would never be strong enough to say in person.’ – Cody Simpson

‘Amazon’s outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics – one company bullying us all.’ – Zephyr Teachout

‘I experienced bullying as early as the first day of kindergarten and there were times where I wish could escape out of my body.’ – Lizzie Velasquez

‘The main topic I’m always talking about is equality, and I get that it’s politics, but it shouldn’t be. It should be the most normal thing ever. There’s bullying and discrimination about the colour of your skin, your religion. And it must end.’ – Conchita Wurst

‘There are many different types of bullying, being called fat and all that stuff, it bothers you. You have to deal with it.’ – Rob Ford

‘Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.’ – Kate Gosselin

‘Honestly, when I was a boy and I was out as a gay boy, I never really dealt with anyone bullying me or anything like that.’ – Carmen Carrera

‘For too long, we’ve allowed ourselves to equate targeted bullying with innocent teasing, or dismissed it as pranks and ignored the torment and long-term impact that an incident like this has on young people.’ – Kerry Kennedy

‘I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn’t one of the bullies – I wasn’t strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won’t mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.’ – Tom Junod

‘The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school disco. It led to some bullying.’ – Russell Howard

‘I’m very lucky I haven’t gone through a lot of bullying, and I’m also home schooled.’ – Amybeth McNulty

‘Kids have to understand that they have control. Not their parents, not the principal, not the president of the U.S. It starts with them and it ends with them. To end this epidemic of bullying they have to standup for one another.’ – Eve Torres

‘Trolls want reactions. Don’t become a bully because they’re bullying you!’ – Ananya Panday

‘Trolling and bullying has become a norm on social media and people are not aware of the ways to deal with it. So, it’s important to create awareness and let people know that they are not alone.’ – Ananya Panday

‘I don’t think bullying is gender or age-related or dependent on what section of society you are coming from.’ – Ananya Panday

‘I’m a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I’m mocking. But at the end of the day, I’m the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That’s satire.’ – Randy Rainbow

‘Before the Internet, bullying ended when you withdrew from whatever environment you were in. But now, the bullying dynamic is harder to contain and harder to ignore.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘Many adult bullies hide behind the idea that bullying happens only among children. They conceive of themselves as adults who know better and are offering their hard-earned wisdom to others. The Internet makes that sort of certainty easier to attain: looking at their screens, adult bullies rarely see the impact of their words and actions.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘Children should speak out and take action to support each other to end bullying.’ – Choi Si-won

‘I’ve learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn’t standing up for myself and I wasn’t caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.’ – Chrissy Costanza

‘The traits my grandfather came to value in Donald were the traits that were a result of my grandfather’s maltreatment of Donald – the bullying, the tendency not to care about other people’s feelings, the willingness to cheat, lie to get what he wanted. And eventually, my grandfather started to see a kindred spirit.’ – Mary L. Trump

‘I’ve been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can’t get out and it is hierarchical. As a result they have a lot of bullying. On the other hand if you mix ages and academic ability this is less of a problem.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘One of our ambitions as independents is to alter our political culture. We want to leave behind the bullying, intimidation and tribalism.’ – Luciana Berger

‘Like so many Kentuckians, I have been disgusted by the bullying and self-enrichment from Matt Bevin.’ – Andy Beshear

‘I made the difficult decision to retire because a campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation by President Trump and his allies forever limited the progression of my military career.’ – Alexander Vindman

‘When I was 15, I was about seven stone – the average weight for a kid of 11 in them days was about nine stone. I managed to keep my head down because there was about half a dozen heavies in the class and there was bullying in them days. But I stayed one step ahead of them all the time.’ – Alex Higgins

‘We’ve been clear that schools shouldn’t just tackle direct homophobic bullying, but also the use of phrases like ‘that’s so gay’ to mean rubbish or bad, because we know the devastating impact they can have on young people’s self-esteem.’ – Nicky Morgan

‘There was some bullying going on in my industry, which I felt particularly when I was growing up and as I got older.’ – Shirley Ballas

‘I experienced bullying in different forms.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘Americans, apparently, either do nothing about the world’s problems, in which case they are ignorant and isolationist, selfish and gutless, or they try to do something about the world’s problems, in which case they are arrogant and naive, greedy and bullying.’ – Gavin Esler

‘I think the reason I have been permanently banned without any warning is because I’ve been talking about a lot of creators on TikTok. But I haven’t done any harassing or bullying and TikTok is claiming that I am.’ – Perez Hilton

‘I’m against bullying, I hate it because I’ve dealt with it.’ – Skai Jackson

‘A lot of my fans also have gotten bullied and they always tweet me, ‘How do you deal with it?’ I always get questions about that, and I say if someone’s bullying you, stand up to them. Say something.’ – Skai Jackson

‘Social media was a little hard for me to handle at first, when I was nine. I have a lot of followers, but that came with a lot of people I didn’t know bullying me.’ – Skai Jackson

‘There is a fair amount of moderation on the site, not only for legal reasons, but for moral ones as well. We look out for bullying and just overall safety for the kids. It is a well-groomed site.’ – David Baszucki

‘I feel like everyone that is in this profession deals with bullying in social media and it’s sad. It’s a lot of people thinking we don’t see it, because we get a lot of things on social media, but at the end of the day, we see these things.’ – Rhea Ripley

‘In my 25-30 years of experience in the markets, just as you cannot have a good relationship with a woman by bullying her, you cannot have a good relationship with the market by trying to bully it or say that you are the king. Market is king.’ – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

‘I grew up in a very small conservative town and as a result there were a lot of people who didn’t like what I did. So I would say for anyone who is dealing with bullying, regardless if it’s not to do with being a medium, I know what it’s like to be alienated and feel different.’ – Tyler Henry

‘I think there really needs to be some consequences for people with bullying, because there are children that are taking their lives over this.’ – Shanna Moakler

‘I understand what it can feel like when people are bullying you, and you can’t just seem to catch a break, and people don’t see who you are. And people completely paint their own picture. And you’re supposed to zip it and just go along with whatever they say.’ – Hilaria Baldwin

‘I’ve always felt more scrutinized. It’s definitely not bullying, because you can see how much I enjoy it.’ – Alex Horne

‘While we do not want war, we will not tolerate any bullying by Beijing.’ – Amarinder Singh

‘Every organization has a responsibility to stamp out bullying and discrimination. From what I read and understand through various conversations, British Cycling recognize they’ve fallen short in a number of areas.’ – Chris Hoy

‘I’m a big supporter of the LGBT community and stopping bullying.’ – Brittney Griner

‘We teach kids that bullying is wrong and I don’t think there’s any difference when you’re an adult.’ – Liz Cambage

‘Bullying about my skin tone probably started at nine years old and it was actually by the lighter-skinned black girls at school.’ – Bree Runway

‘I beat the bullies up. I got suspended a lot for beating up kids in our schools that were bullying other, sometimes mentally handicapped kids.’ – Cody Garbrandt

‘I like to remember happy memories from my childhood growing up as a girl in Blackburn and while this mostly speaks true, there were also deeply dark and painful days when I experienced shocking racial and cultural bullying.’ – A. J. Odudu

‘My advice to anyone experiencing racial or cultural bullying, either in real life or online, is to remember that these cowardly acts of unprovoked nastiness merely display the bully’s own insecurities, as what they point out as weaknesses are simply ways in which you differ from them.’ – A. J. Odudu

‘We believe if young people felt empowered to make a difference and experienced the bravery of self-confidence and of knowing they can achieve great things, not only would we address the issue of bullying, but we would also lay the tracks for transformative change that fosters the ultimate goal of a kinder and braver world.’ – Cynthia Germanotta

‘We cannot allow the CCP to continue bullying us and our allies.’ – Michelle Steel

‘Comedy should speak truth to power. It should always be aimed upward. When it’s aimed downward, it’s called bullying.’ – Jimmy Dore

‘When the bullying got really bad I was cutting school – didn’t realize they were going to call your house. My mom got a call and was yelling at me. I kind of broke down and cried.’ – Uriah Hall

‘I’ve said it before, but Hawaiian fighters have a different type of toughness, and it’s because of how we come up. It’s not like bullying or anything like that, but we are raised to handle problems when they come up.’ – Brad Tavares

‘The social media bullying hit me hard. The things that people can say when they’re behind a computer is just, it’s insane. And being an 11-year-old and having people saying that I was anorexic and that my mom wasn’t feeding me, it’s really hard to understand the fact that they’re not true.’ – Ava Michelle