Victims Quotes · Page 8

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I saw firsthand the toll that fraud can take on the victims and their families.

— Amy Klobuchar

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

— Jodie Foster

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

— Angus Deaton

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

— Anonymous

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

— Elie Wiesel

“If I had my way, the news cycle would be dedicated to the victims, not their killer.”

— Kristen Brand

We have been fed such unreal standards of beauty that we have now become victims and part of this process that one…

— Sameera Reddy

“The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning.”

— Truman Capote

“Victims, he thought, were birds and animals and people who arrived at the wrong place at the wrong time, usually in too…

— John D. MacDonald

A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the…

— Tony Meloto

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

— Tom Robbins

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to…

— Henry Rollins

I don't have any problem with coverage of victims in France. My heart goes out to anyone who was hurt or killed…

— Lazarus of Bethany

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

— Tullian Tchividjian

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four…

— Paul O'Grady

“In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears are a sign of weakness. When you…

— Frida R

Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies,…

— Lance Loud

“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary…

— Judith Lewis Herman

I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I…

— Zainab Salbi

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to…

— Charles Dickens

From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of…

— Azim Khamisa

“People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse…

— Chrystine Oksana

Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what…

— Maureen Johnson

“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster…

— Michael Salter

“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases…

— Beatrix Campbell

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth…

— Rachel Lloyd

“[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are…

— Iain Pears

We were innocent victims. (Angelia) Yeah, and I’m the tooth fairy. (Bride)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be.”

— McCartney Green

Nut up and flipped in, than slipped the clip in, mistakin' the bloody victims.

— Bizzy Bone

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

— Malala Yousafzai

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

— bell hooks

I'm not going to allow inmates and officers to be the victims of violent people.

— Eric Adams

“The place of victory will always favour those who choose not to remain victims.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

— Benjamin Disraeli