Top 272 Harassment Quotes & Sayings

The solution to 'on-line harassment' is simple: women should log off.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

Sexual harassment is as difficult to prove as it is to disprove.

Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.

We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.

We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

We need to first clearly establish what our modern rules for behavior are and make sure those are clearly understood and communicated. That empowers both the people who experience harassment on any level, but also the people who are the perpetrators of harassment to absolutely understand what behavior is crossing the line.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.

Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.

Sexual harassment does bring shame.

As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

Debt collectors should not be able to call, email, or text you to the point of harassment.

I believe that victims of sexual harassment must be allowed to tell their story on their time, in their own way.

I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity.

All together now: Women don't cause sexual harassment, harassers do.

Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.

I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense.

Preventative measures should be taken to provide the fundamentals of recognizing and addressing sexual harassment. If all community members are required to undergo such training, it will be assumed in any case of sexual harassment that the perpetrator understood the effect of his actions.

Hey, folks, look at all the damage that Bill Clinton has done to feminism. First, oral sex is not sex now. You got a Lewinsky, it isn't sex. And sexual harassment, you know what it used to be? All you had to have for sexual harassment was for a superior in your office to use his power to have his way with you, no matter whether you wanted it or not. Now that's out the window. Because we can't, of course, have Bill Clinton said to have engaged in sexual harassment. No way. Not gonna happen.

We talk about sexual harassment in the workplace, but there's sexual harassment in schools, right? There's sexual harassment on the street. So there's a larger conversation to be had. And I think it will be a disservice to people if we couch this conversation in about what happens in Hollywood or what happens in even political offices.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

I deplore sexual harassment.

Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

I have a dream that, one day, maybe we'll have more women in the Senate than there are victims of Harvey Weinstein's harassment.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.

I've experienced harassment. I've had male comedians be very inappropriate.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Anyone who faces any kind of harassment should complain immediately so that a thorough investigation can happen.

I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.

I will not put up with bullying and harassment - certainly not after the experiences I've had.

Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the harassment.

Sexual harassment can really affect you for a long time, and I want more women to come forward.

You know, people should be able to vote free of any harassment, intimidation, obstacles, et cetera.

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

I stand second to none in condemning sexual harassment of women.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

Early in my career, I was subjected to harassment in the form of some unwelcome suggestive comments and overtures.

In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker.

I'm tired of people not taking sexual harassment as a serious issue. It is.

As we know, one of the dark sides of social media is online harassment.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

We didn't know what was coming next. And, you know, this is not just about computers; this is harassment of individuals, it's harassment of our candidates, harassment of our donors. We had stolen information, personal information. People were personally harassed.

And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very groups. So if Trump is serious about unifying the country, if this is a thing he wants to do, then I think he needs to immediately speak against these acts of intimidation, harassment and violence that are happening to some degree in the name of the campaign that he ran.

It's so unbelievable that in 2017, almost every single woman has a story about sexual harassment.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.