I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense.

Julie Plec

I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.

Alex Pareene

Love Funny Wit

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Alice Walker

Time Were Ugly

While writing, saying, and doing much, Mr. Trump is apologizing for his past sins. He's walking away from supporting abortion, hurling insults and more. Now, America needs to follow suit and apologize for the scourge of legal abortion that has left millions of empty cradles, wombs barren, women's health damaged, and families broken.

Alveda King

Women Men Legal

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

Alveda King

Time You Violent

While Matt Bevin insults teachers and bullies our neighbors, I'm focused on restoring decency and bringing people together to get real results for our families in Eastern Kentucky.

Andy Beshear

Teacher Easter While

While Matt Bevin insults and bullies educators, I care about showing our teachers respect, protecting their pensions, and making public education a top priority.

Andy Beshear

Teacher Respect Education

All over the world, the Trump administration is pursuing a range of policies: tweeting insults at Maduro, negotiating with a defiant North Korea, sending a small fleet of warships to the Persian Gulf to intimidate Iran. But the speed with which the president always sours on these efforts means they can never be part of any discernible strategy.

Anne Applebaum

War Art World

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.

Anthony Carmona

Positive Family Communication

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

Anthony Holden

Which Weeks Week

Anti-Semitic insults by 'Svoboda' have caused outrage on number of occasions both in Ukraine and in Israel.

Avigdor Lieberman

Age Used Use

It is a common thing for supporters of President Trump, even as early as when he was a candidate, to say, 'He fights.' And yes, he does fight. He fights everyone. He gets into all kinds of scraps that are pointless and unnecessary. He insults when he doesn't need to.

Ben Domenech

Yes Very Up

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

Bernie Mac

Time Art You

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

Bernie Mac

TV Think Thin

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Billy Idol

Love T Someone

Those of us who have feeling, who are sensitive, who can be affected, need a good shield. Footballers are very young and they're exposed. Even at under-15s, players have Twitter and I'm sure they're already getting insults... it's ugly, it sullies society and football.

Bojan Krkic

Society Good Young

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

Bryan Burrough

Where Us Too Many People

What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.

Carolyn Chute

Work Amazing You

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

Cass McCombs

Vice T Out

'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars.

David Oshinsky

War Intelligence Chance

I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.

Don Rickles

Morning Christmas Art

You can do TV and radio without the personal insults.

Ed Schultz

I know people will criticise when you play bad; that is part of this job, and I am fine with that. That is not a problem. The problem is the insults. That is what hurts the most.

Edin Dzeko

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Edouard Manet

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

Eli Roth

Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

Elif Batuman

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Epictetus

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

Gil Penchina

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

Gillian Jacobs

I am not disturbed by criticism or insults. It's all about having faith in yourself.

Gonzalo Higuain

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Haim Ginott

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Hillary Clinton

Everyone has his or her own opinion and I always welcome criticism. That's why we have freedom of expression and that's also what I stand for - but I won't stand for insults.

Ilkay Gundogan

I am not a big supporter of sledging or insults that are hurled at you. But I don't mind if a bowler glares or stares at the batsmen. During my career, I have faced these situations numerous times.

Inzamam-ul-Haq

It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.

James Meredith

Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

Jan Koum

When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.

Jasper Carrott

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

Jon Ronson

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

Judith Martin

I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense.

Julie Plec

The data - on issues and on Trump himself - keep pointing back to 'one-in-four' as the true size of Trump's base. It is around one in four who like the tweeting, like the insults, the things other people say are mean or unproductive behavior.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

Laurence Yep

Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.

Leslie Jones

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Lionel Blue

By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.

Lionel Shriver

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Louis Nizer

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.

Lynn Coady

People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!

Maisie Williams

To be the coach of Real Madrid is an honour, and every coach has pride in that. However, one is also subjected to a wide range of critiques - some just, but others not. But when the criticism deteriorates into insults, which has happened many times, I don't appreciate that.

Manuel Pellegrini

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Margaret Atwood