Breaking up Quote by Lionel Shriver

“Very few can overcome their immediate feelings of hurt and victimhood and channelize it in creative ways of self-transformation. Often such a process takes…

— Shaheen Akhter Suraiya Begum Hameeda Hossain Sultana Kamal Meghna Guhathakurta Meghna Guhathakurta

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When…

— Maya Angelou

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

“A victim evokes sympathy, right? Victims are not responsible, right? Victims have the moral high ground… someone else is causing the misery, right? Victims…

— David W. Earle

“While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one’s self a…

— Stephen Richards

“Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral energy for the present. And the lines are not always clear. In the…

— Howard Zinn

“Violence against women is the last refuge of disgusting immoral men.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“The psychological and political reasons to overcompensate by insisting on victimhood were strong.”

— Timothy Snyder

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their…

— Elie Wiesel

“When women act on behalf of our own sexual desires, we get blamed for being raped, for the demise of modern masculinity, for men’s…

— Jaclyn Friedman

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate…

— Ida Tarbell