Victim Quotes · Page 29

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

— Danilo Kis

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

— Rich Lowry

“Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?”

— Bill Willingham

Man became a victim to education when he fell out of the image of God.

— Myles Munroe

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render…

— Ernest Renan

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

— Richard John Neuhaus

Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

— Bret Stephens

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

— Tatum O'Neal

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only…

— Howard Zinn

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base…

— James T. Rapier

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim…

— Paul Bloom

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls…

— Hanan Ashrawi

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their…

— T. D. Jakes

The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in…

— Rush Limbaugh

The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that…

— Ramsey Clark

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me.…

— Jenni Schaefer

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

— Frank Herbert

“Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her…

— Cheryl Hersha

I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of…

— Malcolm X

It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to…

— Vernon Johnson

No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick…

— Russell Brand

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry…

— Rush Limbaugh

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

— Wayne Newton

“I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?”

— Eskay Teel

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

— Michael M. Honda

Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

— Erland Josephson

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

— P. D. James

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

— Max Anders

Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“Without words like blame, victim, and fault, I do believe about 50% of the unhappiness in the world would be cured.”

— Mike Dooley

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

— Seneca the Younger

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

— Georges Bernanos

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

— Bryant H. McGill

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

— Smokey Robinson

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

— William Glasser

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

— Alan Gorrie

“He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”

— Henry James

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

— Assata Shakur