Best 651 quotes in «victim quotes» category

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.

Living from the Creator Orientation is actually more challenging. In the Victim Orientation, I didn't have to exercise conscious choice; I just reacted to my circumstances.

I would kill to be on Dexter, and I would double kill to be on True Blood. I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Noam Chomsky is, in some ways, a victim of this new millennium we live in because you can't pull a sound bite from that guy and understand what he is talking about. You have to hear the whole paragraph. You have to hear the whole page. You've got to hear the whole conversation if you really want to understand it and that could change your life.

Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you?

So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

Stop being a victim and waiting for somebody else to open up an opportunity for you!

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success.

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse.

One thing is for sure. The Drive-By Media is populated with people who are not just biased and bigoted and prejudicial. It's obvious that they are also the victims of an absolutely pathetic education system.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.