Victim Quotes
1510 Victim quotes by 1088 unique authors
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The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.…
— Arthur Miller
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the…
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In…
— Charles S. Maier
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
— George Bernard Shaw
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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
— Maya Angelou
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I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never…
— Robert Evans
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An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the…
— Claude Chabrol
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Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no…
— Henry Martyn
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Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could…
— Alexander Masters
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Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own…
— Meera Syal
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My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.
— Hardin B. Jones
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You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.
— Deepak Chopra
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For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir…
— Sam Keen
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At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
— Gloria Swanson
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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I am not a Republican nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million…
— Malcolm X
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I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims…
— Nelson Mandela
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In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly or secretly possess…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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