Victim Quotes · Page 23

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all…

— Malachy McCourt

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

— Shirley MacLaine

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

— Ian Mckellen

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a…

— Madonna Ciccone

As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

— Jessica Valenti

“You told me you weren’t a victim… Don’t let that attack hold you back from living.”

— Lisa Kessler

“Obedience, forgiveness, and devotion are in the blood of every victim.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

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

— Dan Rather

If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others .…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't…

— Jess Phillips

A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic…

— Patricia Espinosa

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift…

— T. D. Jakes

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of…

— Kate Millett

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down…

— Ellen Tauscher

The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims…

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

“When I was three or four meters away, one of them stood. The others continued to squat, watching, alert for whatever distraction…

— Barry Eisler

I was a sick child, I was scared, and honestly speaking, I never thought about why I didn't tell anyone about my…

— Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

“The least dignified thing that can happen to a man is to be murdered. If he dies in his sleep he gets…

— Paul Theroux

I hide my emotions mainly because you don't want somebody to know that you feel sorry for them, because they will feel…

— Angelina Jolie

“Power is pure undiluted energy which is incapable of corrupting itself. So where got we this 'that power corrupts men'? We got…

— Paul Bamikole

Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the…

— John Green

Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going…

— Diana Wynne Jones

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

— Eugene V. Debs

“There's nothing harder than seeing your child be the victim of something you and she cannot control.”

— Brooke and Keith Desserich

“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born...

— Aldous Huxley

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

— Scarlett Johansson

In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

— Slavoj Žižek

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

— Malcolm X

When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

— Nancy Grace

Every victim should have the right to tell their own story. Not a tabloid.

— Jim Bob Duggar

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

— Eckhart Tolle

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.

— Zig Ziglar

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in…

— Jack Kerouac

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

— Christopher X. Brodeur

“More often than not, if a person is wearing a smile, there is a victim attached somewhere.”

— Donald Gorman

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

— Nora Roberts

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

— Joanna Lumley

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being…

— Sarah Paulson