Mobbing Quotes

“There’s a word we learned in social studies: schadenfreude. It’s when you enjoy watching someone else suffer. The real question though, is why? I think part of it is self preservation. And part of it is because a group always feels more like a group when it’s banded together against an enemy. It doesn’t matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you-you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself.”
― Jodi Picoult

“Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what they're dealing with. No, they do not. They've never seen a lonely person, they've simply hated him without knowing him. They've been his neighbours who've used him up, they were the voices in the next room who tempted him. They roused things up against him, getting them to make a din and drown him out. Children ganged up against him when he was a tender child, and at every stage of his growing up he grew hostile to grown-ups . They tracked him to his hiding-place like an animal of chase and throughout his long youth there was no closed season. And when he didn't allow himself to be worn out so that he got away they yelled about what came forth from him and called it ugly and were suspicious of it. And as he didn't stop they grew more obvious and gobbled up his food and breathed up his air and spat into his poverty so that he himself became disgusted at it. They brought him into disrepute as if he were a contagion and threw stones at him to speed his departure. And they were right to follow their age-old instinct: because he really was their enemy. But then when he didn't look up they had second thoughts. They suspected that in all of this they had acted as he had willed them to act; they had strengthened him in his solitude and had helped him separate himself from them for ever.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Folk kommer att vara aspackade och skrika 'jävla tjockis' och 'jävla Svullo' efter mig hela kvällen och jag ska bara garva åt skiten och springa omkring med min fåniga hatt.”
― Gitte Nilsson, Historien om Micke Dubois - På Liv Och Död

“Han fyller sexton år idag, och hela sitt liv har han blivit retad och trakasserad. Utsidan, insidan, talet, adressen. Överallt. I skolan, i omklädningsrummet, på nätet. Det nöter ner en människa till sist, det syns inte så tydligt, för folk omkring ett mobbat barn inbillar sig att man blir väl van till sist. Aldrig, man vänjer sig aldrig. Man brinner hela tiden. Det är bara ingen som vet hur lång stubinen är, inte ens man själv.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Jeg har til og med vært med på å plage Stefan fordi han var først ute med kjønnshår, Emma fordi hun kler seg annerledes og Ingrid fordi hun begynner å grine lett. Hvert minste avvik undertrykkes, og jeg er like hensynsløs mot dem som mobberne mine er mot meg. Alt for å ikke synes. Alt for å slippe unna mobbernes søkelys.”
― Jason Timbuktu Diakité, En droppe midnatt - En familjebiografi

“Page 111: Workplace bullying directly affects one in six U.S. workers. It poses an occupational health hazard. Yet few targeted individuals complain. That is because existing laws either require harassment to be discriminatory or the standard of outrageous conduct is rarely met in the courts. Gender, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation define protected status groups. In order for mistreatment to be discriminatory and illegal, the Target must have “protected status” and the bully cannot be a member. But when the bully also is a member, as in woman-on-woman bullying (over 40 percent of all bullying reported in the Institute survey), the Target cannot file a lawsuit to force the employer to believe her or to punish the perpetrator. Research by the Institute and others shows that two-thirds of all harassment is “status-blind” and therefore legal.”
― Gary Namie, The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job

“»Halt! Nicht schießen!«, rief plötzlich einer der Gehilfen des Jagdmeisters laut. »Das ist ein Gestaltwandler!«
Die übrigen Mitglieder der Jagdgesellschaft fingen an zu murmeln. Er sah, wie sie abwechselnd ihn, Kudonio und Akurio anstarrten. Doch der Jagdmeister ließ sich von ihrer Verunsicherung nicht erschüttern, sondern kam langsam auf ihn zu. Der Herzogssohn jedoch wirkte genauso verdutzt wie der Rest der Jagdgesellschaft.
»Ein Gestaltwandler? Ist das wahr? Wer bist du? Sprich!«, forderte Akurio.
Der Blick Kudonios wanderte über das Muster seines Fells, erfasste jedes Detail und mit einem mulmigen Gefühl im Magen ahnte er, was jetzt kommen würde.
»Das ist Lerio. Der Hässliche«, verkündete der Jagdmeister laut und das Gewisper der anderen verstummte für einen kurzen Moment, bevor es zu aufgeregtem Geraune wurde. Dann begannen die Ersten zu lachen.”
― Nicole Gozdek, Emanio - Der Schöne und das Biest