Victim Quotes
1510 Victim quotes by 1088 unique authors
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Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and…
— Roberto Assagioli
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It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of…
— Vernon Johnson
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First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified,…
— Margaret Heckler
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Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On…
— Margaret Cousins
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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to…
— Alan Barth
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Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.
— Michael M. Honda
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it…
— David Bentley Hart
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The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their…
— Fanny Kemble
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The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating…
— Slavoj Žižek
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It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even…
— Slavoj Žižek
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There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to…
— Merle Shain
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The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one…
— Merle Shain
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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty…
— C.J. Sansom
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The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater…
— Ricky Williams
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If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a…
— Chester Himes
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and…
— Spider Robinson
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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
— Peter McWilliams
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my…
— Tom Hayden
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We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a…
— Andrew Niccol
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I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it…
— L. Tom Perry
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with…
— Alexander Pope
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It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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