Charles J. Sykes

“Perhaps the finest--and certainly the most eloquent--discussion of the dilemma of victimism is Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, in which…

— Charles J. Sykes

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.…

— Charles J. Sykes

“[A] society that insists on stressing self-expression over self-control generally gets exactly what it deserves. The sulking teenager who insists, "It's not…

— Charles J. Sykes

“More than a century before Mills and Nisbet, Alexis de Tocqueville had remarked upon the uneasiness of the citizens of the young…

— Charles J. Sykes

“[V]ictimism is an ideology of the ego. But perhaps ideology is too strong a term; victimism can be seen as a generalized…

— Charles J. Sykes

“We simply should not care about politics as much as we do, because it should not be as important as it has…

— Charles J. Sykes

“Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and…

— Charles J. Sykes

“Although victimism can trace its lineage to liberalism, it is not itself liberalism. Nor is it updated Christianity. It militates against ideas…

— Charles J. Sykes