When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may… — Yehuda Bauer Copy Share Image
When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The world needs people who have survived mistakes, tragedies, and trials to help the rest of us through. Where would we be… — Kimberly Giles Copy Share Image
I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“You can look back at your past misfortune with two points of view; both will impact the person you become. You can… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Decker pulled the mask on. It smelt of his excitement. As soon as he breathed in he got a hard. Not the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
One main problem with raising awareness of LGBT abuse is the denial. The term "domestic violence" is perceived as something akin to… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm projected as an ambulance chaser, but I'm more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come… I have… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I wished them the harshest depths and punishments of hell, all of them, but only because the punishment should fit the crimes.… — M. Nova Copy Share Image
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic.… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV,… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image