Victim Quotes · Page 40

When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to…

— Mia Bloom

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties…

— Widad Akrawi

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no…

— Frank Herbert

Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Mia bottled all this up inside of her and just couldn’t manage it any longer. Mia would feel like it was entirely…

— Patricia Dsouza

Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the…

— Eugene V. Debs

Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if…

— Garry Kasparov

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these…

— Mireille Enos

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous…

— Marquis de Sade

Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe…

— George W. Bush

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the…

— Anonymous

It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,…

— Camille Flammarion

“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar…

— Beatrix Campbell

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

— Stedman Graham

Self-defense is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary…

— Wong Shun Leung

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees,…

— Brian Ross

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American…

— Frank Zappa

This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them,…

— James Packer

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the…

— Al Franken

On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of…

— Bobby Jones

“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

I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've…

— Eric Schlosser

Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation…

— Herbert Marcuse

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead,…

— James Mattis

Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going…

— Dan Rather