Victim Quotes - page 3

If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim? (Sam Harris)
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. View quote
Henry Clay
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. View quote
Abu Bakr
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I'm projected as an ambulance chaser, but I'm more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come.... I have never fought a case where they didn't ask me to come. People have this picture like I'm sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. "You hear anything? Oh, let's run! It's Virginia today!"... Every victim calls us.... "Who put Sharpton in charge?" View quote
Al Sharpton
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche. View quote
Ted Danson
When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going. View quote
John Steinbeck
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. View quote
Malcolm X
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred. View quote
Salman Rushdie
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man. View quote
Anton Chekhov
I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully. View quote
Tupac Shakur
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. View quote
Thomas Szasz
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka. View quote
Arthur Koestler
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me. View quote
Mike Tyson
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. View quote
Elias Canetti
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an "innocent victim" only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret. (Noam Chomsky)
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. View quote
S. I. Hayakawa
O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors. View quote
John Holt
I always want to give the victim a voice. View quote
Ann Rule