Victim Quotes · Page 29

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

— Kathy Calvin

I am fighting because of my innocence. I am fighting because I am a victim. I am not a doper.

— Justin Gatlin

When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

— Saint John Chrysostom

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

— Dolly Parton

“He liked being a victim, because it was easier than trying and failing.”

— Michael James Ploof

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

— Fatou Bensouda

The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.

— James H. Cone

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

— Maria Bamford

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come…

— Jeremy Bentham

I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were…

— Pearl Tan

If someone would tease me about my hair, I would laugh... if someone called me black, I would laugh. I just took…

— Masaba Gupta

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are…

— Narendra Modi

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear…

— Edward Snowden

If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims…

— Dennis Kucinich

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces -…

— Richard M. Weaver

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,…

— Rigoberta Menchu

“It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder…

— P.D. James

The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has…

— Peter Kropotkin

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the…

— William Manchester

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end…

— Joseph Conrad

“I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;…

— Khalil Gibran

You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like,…

— Ted Nugent

Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even…

— J. G. Ballard

Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

— Ignatius of Antioch

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer…

— Jeff Cooper

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

— Chris Colfer

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I will never understand why a police officer has to do a gun magazine dump into their victim.”

— Steven Magee

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

— Liv Ullmann

“a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility”

— Rupi Kaur

“Do not be a perpetrator. Do not be a bystander. Do not be a victim.”

— Yehuda Bauer

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

— Liu Xiaobo

“To imprison yourself and then beg to be freed; this is the dynamic of a victim mindset.”

— Steve Maraboli

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

— Richard Holbrooke

It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.

— Lawrence Jordan

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

— Tori Amos

Letting the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund close is not an option.

— Mikie Sherrill

Forgiveness doesnt mean you excuse the crime. It just means youre no longer willing to be the victim.

— Varsha Sharma

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

— Lily Collins