Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested. Octavia E Butler
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I would rather be a little nobody, than to be a evil somebody. Abraham Lincoln
Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are – to yourself. Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN’T harassed? WHAT?!
At MY school a hundred percent of the children – gay, straight, transgendered, bi, sell ... or trade – WERE harassed. She’s saying that fourteen per cent of the gay students were NOT harassed? That seems impossible.
At MY school any one of us would have sucked Elton John’s COCK at a mandatory school assembly for a fourteen per cent chance of NOT being harassed. Penn Jillette
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the centre of the city. Oscar Wilde
In the 1990s thousands of young people came to Deepcut to learn to be soldiers. Four of them would die here in mysterious circumstances. Today a coroner said one – Cheryl James – had taken her own life. After twenty years recruits are speaking out about a culture of bullying and abuse. Deepcut: The Army’s Shame, BBC 2016
There was a wider culture of brutality at the base. ibid.
Cheryl: she’d died from a single bullet wound to the head. ibid.
‘You still hear those stories today – this sexualised culture remains entrenched and a very difficult problem with the army.’ ibid.
We cannot know the full extent of bulling and sexual assault at the base or other army facilities. ibid.
Blackheath, south-east London, where on 17th May 2008 19-year-old Rosi Boxall was found dead in a front garden on a leaf-affluent street. In 2009 at the Old Bailey two teenage girls were tried for bullying Rosi to death … found guilty of manslaughter. When Kids Kill s1e1: Bullied to Death, Channel 5 2016
17 year old [Oluwakemi] Kemi … Kemi’s accomplice was just 13 [Hatice Can]. ibid.
‘Punched Rosi and sprayed deodorant in her face: all this was being recorded on a mobile phone. They bullied here till she jumped out of a window here.’ ibid. news report
In Spring of 1996, my senior hear of high school, I documented a group of 8th grade girls who were notorious for their crass behaviour and allegedly bad hygiene. Dirty Girls, short 1996
‘They don’t shower’ … ‘They’re trying to be rebels’ … ‘kind of outcasts’ … ‘Dime-store feminism’ … ibid. schoolmates
‘I’ve been molested.’ ibid. Amber
Amanda Todd, the teenager from BC, whose very name is synonymous with bullying, suicide and loss. Tonight: the never before told story of the man accused of stalking her online. How many more victims would there be? The Fifth Estate: Stalking Amanda Todd: The Man in the Shadows, CBC 2014
The story of Amanda Todd’s torment begins in the Netherlands. The teenager and her tormenter divided by continents but connected by the internet. This is the story of one Dutch man who authorities say would bully and blackmail the BC teen without ever leaving his home in Holland. He lived his life in the shadows. ibid.
They’re a new breed of cyber-predators who capture the girls’ images. ibid.
Norway: he was carefully planning to ruin another girl’s life … The police were closing in. ibid.
Amanda’s death would kick that investigation into overdrive. ibid.
If someone wants to be my detractor, that is that person’s privilege. I just don’t care. Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn, Sky Documentaries 2020
I would say I’m probably more of a maverick. I do have a crazy list of clients. ibid.
He was known as the guy who got the conviction and execution of the Rosenbergs [Julius & Ethel]. And I think he saw this as a stepping stone to glory, and it worked. ibid. Alan Dershowitz
The Communist Party is not a political party. It is a criminal conspiracy. ibid. Cohn
COHN RESIGNS McCARTHY POST: Report 2 Other Aids Quitting. ibid. Daily News front page
He [Trump] hates anything social. And he really doesn’t like anything political either. ibid.
Roy Cohn was one of the most evil presences – and I mean evil presences – in our society during most of my adult life. ibid. observer
I wouldn’t have had my nostrils on the same straw as that pig. ibid. male socialite
‘You want to be nice, or you want to be effective?’ ibid. stage play re Cohn
He [Trump] hates anything social. And he really doesn’t like anything political either. ibid.
Roy Cohn was one of the most evil presences – and I mean evil presences – in our society during most of my adult life. ibid. observer
I wouldn’t have had my nostrils on the same straw as that pig. ibid. male socialite
‘You want to be nice, or you want to be effective?’ ibid. stage play of Cohn
Ethel Rosenberg was not guilty of the crime of which she was charge. But there was a plot afoot. And the plot was from the highest levels of government to frame Ethel Rosenberg in order to get Julius to want to save her life by ratting out the people who he was in contact with. I don’t think we’ve ever had a miscarriage of justice that parallels the Rosenberg case in my lifetime. ibid. Alan Dershowitz
For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened – and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars? – Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he knows exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants. Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Maxwell’s bullying was not confined to outsiders; he ruled his family with an iron fist as well. Chasing Ghislaine I: Sins of the Father, Vicky Ward, Quest Red 2022
‘It was a Screw’s nick. The bullies ruled the roost.’ Britain’s Notorious Prisons s1e1: Strangeways, former inmate, ITV 2023
‘A violent filthy anything-goes routine.’ ibid. former inmate
As children they dread becoming professional ballet dancers. Training at two of the most prestigious ballet schools in the UK. Now speak out about what for years has been left unsaid. A world where eating disorders are common. Producing wonderful dancers but also leaving a legacy of emotional problems. Panorama: The Dark Side of Ballet Schools, BBC 2023
‘What it felt like was just being bullied on a daily basis.’ ibid. victim
A teenage girl and her boyfriend were harassed with thousands of abusive demoralising texts and DMs for more than a year. Messages like, I hate you. Kill yourself. And worse … The bully was the girl’s own mother. True Crime Recaps: Her Mother Did What?! Youtube 0.59, 2023
One of the tragedies of the modern game is this factor that probably now we have quite a lot of gifted ball players because of the accent on ball control in modern football, which the public have not really seen, mainly because of the destructive attitude of some players with lesser ability. The Wednesday Play: The Golden Vision by Ken Loach, man in the know, BBC 1968