Victim Quotes - page 4

There's no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It's always someone else's fault. Usually people just blame the victim. (Meg Cabot)
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. View quote
Mary Higgins Clark
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't. View quote
Rick Riordan
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. View quote
Tilda Swinton
Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. View quote
William Goldman
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. View quote
Philip K. Dick
In a civil war... every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The BBC is a victim of its own independence. View quote
Graham Norton
You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end. (Danilo Kis)
We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim. View quote
James Hillman
All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making. View quote
Joshua Ferris
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. View quote
Lynn Grabhorn
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one. View quote
Rod Steiger
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. View quote
T.D. Jakes
Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one. View quote
John McWhorter
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle. View quote
Neil LaBute
Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times. View quote
David Halberstam
You can't be a victim and heal. (A. J. Langer)
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand. View quote
Albert Maltz
Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. View quote
Anthony Anderson
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. View quote
Arielle Dombasle
I don't like to play the victim. View quote
Barry Pepper