Perpetrators Quotes
64 quotes by 57 authors
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How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.
— Harvey Fierstein
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
— T.D. Jakes
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Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
— Catharine MacKinnon
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The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize…
— Michael Moore
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In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our…
— Rick Perry
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence…
— Salman Rushdie
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
— Laura Schlessinger
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated…
— Ted Turner
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The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.
— Keith Ablow
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In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood…
— Timothy Keller
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Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone…
— Stephen Dobyns
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The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change
— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his…
— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others…
— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
— Leslie Morgan Steiner
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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to…
— Henry Rollins
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