Chinua Achebe Quotes

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

Bullies are always cowards.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

I never caught on to being a bully.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I'll fight anybody. I've been saying that for I don't know how long.

I think bullying in general is for cowards.

Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.