Victim Quotes · Page 17

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

— Eckhart Tolle

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

— Noah Webster

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

— Carlos Santana

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

— Jakob Nielsen

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know…

— Nancy Grace

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

— Indira Gandhi

A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how…

— Stella Vine

There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

— Mother Teresa

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

It's the way Hillary Clinton goes on the attack and tries to hurt victims of sexual predations. I mean, she's the one…

— Rudy Giuliani

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces…

— Henry Clay

A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy…

— Joseph Sobran

Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

— David Emerald Womeldorff

The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s,…

— George Carlin

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the…

— Anonymous

Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and,…

— David Blunkett

“Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running,…

— Alice Jamieson

We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not…

— Kate Thornton

Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:…

— John Henry Newman

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their…

— Tom Devine

One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty…

— William J. Brennan

With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the…

— Anonymous

Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato…

— Michael Pollan

Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to…

— Andrew Tudor

We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.

— Dana Boente

“Victimization is often a dynamic. In many cases the victim is also a participant in their own victimization.”

— Bryant McGill

“Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.”

— Andrew Matthews

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

— Alanis Morissette

“As the victim of those impulses she must be looking in the paper for his obituary.”

— Saul Bellow

Quit being the victim of every situation and take responsibilities for your own actions.

— Drusila T

When the ego is forced to choose between happiness and victimhood, it will always choose being the victim.

— Anonymous

The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.

— Nino Cerruti

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

— Elie Wiesel

“I am nobody’s victim and from this day forward I’m going to love me enough to let God love me.”

— Lynn R Davis

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going…

— Kayla Harrison

“I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

— Michael Badnarik

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

— Kary Mullis