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30 "Name Calling" Quotes

"Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even though it's futile. Even though it's way past too late."

--- Alyson Noel

#Late #Whispering #Too Late

"A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent."

--- Ann Coulter

#Speech #Argument #Name Calling

"We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation."

--- Barack Obama

#Generations #Name Calling #Election

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

--- William Shakespeare

#Petals #Love #Best Love

"For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate."

--- Barack Obama

#Absolutism #Treats #Name Calling

"A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever."

--- Barbara Park

#Stones #Sticks #Forever

"America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling."

--- William Arthur Ward

#Fewer #Fence #Name Calling

"Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child's mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is."

--- Beverly Engel

#Stupid #Abuse #Verbal Abuse

"I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate."

--- Bill Bradley

#Thinking #Name Calling #Extremism

"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."

--- W. Averell Harriman

#Courteous #Ministers #Name Calling

"Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor."

--- Tom Tomorrow

#Mean #Attacking #Insult

"I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise."

--- Tom Felton

#Months #Beaten #Bears

"I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians."

--- Charles Schumer

#Politician #People #Focus

"You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling."

--- Christine Feehan

#Ruffles #Name Calling #Names

"From my vantage point, when I'm criticized in a way that I can hear what's being said - i.e., the issues - I'm more likely to listen and respond. A lot of the personal email I receive consists of name calling; I'll write back and say: Talk to me like I'm a person and you're a person and tell me where you disagree with me. I can't tell you how that turns people upside down. More often than not they write back with an apology and a reasoned argument."

--- Steven Petrow

#People #Argument #Talk To Me

"I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle."

--- Coco Chanel

#People #Nice #Being Nice

"There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs."

--- Criss Jami

#People #Ideals #Zealot

"There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling."

--- Daniel Craig

#People #Passion #Name Calling

"American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds."

--- Shane Smith

#American Media #Name Calling #Talk Radio

"Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling."

--- David Horowitz

#Character Assassination #Way #Character

"Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws."

--- Edwin Meese

#People #Crude #Animus

"We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons."

--- Emily Murphy

#Thinking #Fighting #Leader

"But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact"

--- Randa Abdel-Fattah

#One Day #Rubber Bands #Snaps

"In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing for harmonious living. Those who witness for, present solutions. Those who witness against, usually do not - they dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism and sometimes even name-calling. Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect"

--- Peace Pilgrim

#Thinking #Effects #Solutions

"The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism."

--- Paul Krassner

#Wit #Belly #Responsible

"Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is."

--- Paul Feig

#Insulting #Busting #Different

"There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans."

--- George W. Bush

#Soup #Good Dad #Name Calling

"It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children."

--- George W. Bush

#Pointing #Different #Different Choices

"Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization."

--- George Will

#Term #Sexist #Revisionism

"Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies."

--- Groucho Marx

#Mean #Defenseless #Humorous

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