All Quotes By Tag: Bullying
“You can be the person who puts the ‘kick me’ sign on the back, or be the person that watches it happen and does nothing, or you can be the person who takes the sign off.That’s it. Every day, every moment of your life, you’re making this choice. Life doesn’t stop for it, challenges don’t make way for it, the choice is there and you own it. Welcome to adulting.”
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“I’d rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.”
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“We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.”
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“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn’t known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…”
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“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren’t so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”
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“Asshole Proximity Disorder”
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“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.”
“Be yourself. Don’t worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they’re probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.”
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“Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”
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“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
“What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?”
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“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
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“If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
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