Best 651 quotes in «victim quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

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

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

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

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

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

The FBI has a very clear policy. They don't expose victims.

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.