Victim Quotes

1510 Victim quotes by 1088 unique authors

Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of… — Khalil Gibran
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims. — Douglas William Jerrold
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… — Elie Wiesel
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can… — Aristotle
We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that… — Nelson Mandela
You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence. — Zora Neale Hurston
My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to… — Jack Tatum
The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a… — Annie Dillard
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise… — Joseph Conrad
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.… — Jean Baudrillard
To be a complete victim may be another source of power. — Iris Murdoch
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and… — Ezra Pound
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right? — Philip K. Dick
I don't want to be a victim. — Carrie Fisher
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the… — Rick Mercer
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human… — Jacques Maritain
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and… — Jonathan Raban
On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid… — Masaharu Morimoto
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect… — Peter MacKay
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts… — Taslima Nasrin
The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced… — Raymond T. Odierno
I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to… — Kevin Powers

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