Victim Quotes

1510 Victim quotes by 1088 unique authors

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others. — Paulo Coelho
I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim — Tori Amos
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality… — Jonathan Haidt
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it… — Pope Francis
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material… — Huey Newton
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going… — Huey Newton
The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is… — Eldridge Cleaver
Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her… — L. Neil Smith
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — Lynn Nottage
Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.' — Noam Chomsky
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we… — Noam Chomsky
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the… — Alva Myrdal
Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims… — Jaclyn Friedman
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it… — Betty Friedan
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of… — Jim Costa
People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all! — Ward Churchill
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear,… — Ann Radcliffe
Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this… — Howard Lyman
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
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our… — Ariel Dorfman
If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way… — Dennis Kucinich
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which… — Emile Durkheim
A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom. — Donna Karan
There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner. — Chris Christie

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