Victim Quotes · Page 23

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

— Elias Canetti

We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.

— Stanley Krippner

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it,…

— Elisha Cuthbert

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

— Warren Farrell

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

— Judith Butler

Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

— Hamza Yusuf

Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion…they need our legs & lungs of endurance.

— Gary Haugen

Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.

— Marvin Sapp

She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day,…

— Paulo Coelho

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him…

— Che Guevara

I have been informed about the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It is unfortunate and in many aspects unsatisfactory, given the countless victims…

— Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their…

— PZ Myers

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach…

— Merle Shain

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and…

— Hans F. Sennholz

When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual…

— Margo St. James

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it;…

— Rachel Nichols

Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of…

— Jon Katz

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward…

— Arthur Miller

There are some people who do not want this thing to continue to work, and that's what they're doing is all about.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims…

— Howard Zinn

Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I…

— Ralph Waldo Trine

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there…

— Peter Singer

Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I…

— Mary Pipher

I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however…

— Thaddeus Stevens

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than…

— Charles Buxton

“The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill,…

— Ken Follett

“I am not a victim of my circumstances. I am a product of my resiliency.”

— Joyce L. Kyles

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

— Albert Camus

“The victim lay on his face, as most people did after being stuck with ten swords.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

That's my advice to people. You can't get hung up on thinking, "Am I the victim in this situation?" No, I'm in…

— Mindy Kaling

I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.

— Clemantine Wamariya

I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding…

— Pope Francis

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little…

— Maya Angelou

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

— Sergio Marchionne

“Sexual abusers often convince their victims that the abuse was their own demerit.”

— Patricia Dsouza

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

— Honore de Balzac

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny…

— Nora Ephron

The world of marketing has changed. You can lead the change or be a victim of change.

— Denise Morrison

Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber-bullying.

— Paige

I have no feelings for the criminal. All my feelings lie with the victim.

— Tom Price