Octavia E. Butler Quotes

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

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

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Kids are really cruel.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

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

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.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

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

Everyone experiences bullying at some point - there are always older kids who think it's cool to pick on the younger kids.

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.

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.

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

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

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

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.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

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.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

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.