Victim Quotes

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. (Nora Ephron)
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. View quote
Harvey Fierstein
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. View quote
John Updike
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life. View quote
Paulo Coelho
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. (Ayn Rand)
If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. View quote
Emil Cioran
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once-there has to be a limit. View quote
Edward Said
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. View quote
Richard Bach
There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. View quote
James Mattis
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now. View quote
Don DeLillo
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. (Sun Tzu)
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. View quote
Boris Pasternak
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. View quote
Benjamin Tucker