Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men… — Lori Ziganto Copy Share Image
When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears,… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Where we direct our attentive focus shapes and informs—literally and materially—our experienced reality. Prolonged attention creates greater intensity. Like a magnifying glass… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“Stop telling me I’m oppressed…I’m not a victim. I don’t know why feminists are so hellbent on characterizing me as one…Feminists don’t… — Hannah Bleau Copy Share Image
“Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help.… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of… — George Will Copy Share Image
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better.… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim, ... She's… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
