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"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."
"A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way."
"People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around."
"Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity."
"It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping."
"Bullies are always cowards."
"There really is no difference between the bully and the victim."
"I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully."
"Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive."
"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."
"Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance."
"I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully."
"The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations."
"Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still."
"Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain."
"I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance."
"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."
"The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government."
"I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone."
"The White House is a bully pulpit."
