Dove Cameron Quotes

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

Bullies have a soft spot, and mean girls have a reason to be that way. It's a matter of understanding why a person is the way they are.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and maladjustments of the world by hanging them?

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.

For those who feel the need to be bullies, I ignore them.

As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too?

It's difficult to expect kids not to bully one another when they don't have many examples otherwise in society.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

One bully changing their behavior for the better can have a profound effect on many, many lives.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

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.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.