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Victim Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.
- It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
- What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
- Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend…
- Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
- The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven…
- Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
- I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never…
- In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
- Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
- Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no…
- What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices…
- There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life…
- We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
More Victim Quotes
- This above all, to refuse to be a victim. — Margaret Atwood
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its… — Richard Bach
- Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred. — Michelle Bachelet
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. — Michael Badnarik
- The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. — Michael Badnarik
- The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. — Abu Bakr
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing… — Henry Adams
- It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. — Charles Baudelaire
- I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor. — Nina Bawden