Browsing Topic Best Victim Quotes

No one has ever become poor by giving.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that’s bad, they use the press. And they’ll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They’ll take a person who’s a victim of the crime, and make it appear he’s the criminal, and they’ll take the criminal and make it appear that he’s the victim of the crime.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.

Don’t take a job because your mother wants you to. Don’t be a victim. You own your decision.

If I don’t see myself as a victim, then I’m not a victim.

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

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.

We can succeed. We can and we should. There is no place here to play the victim. You have what it takes but you have to choose it. You have to decide. Do you want sympathy for all of your excuses or success? You can’t have both.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Hitherto the plague had found far more victims in the more thickly populated and less well-appointed outer districts than in the heart of the town.

Quite suddenly, however, it launched a new attack and established itself in the business center.

The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength – although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

This [Roe v. Wade] will fall on the poorest women in our country. This will fall on young women who have been abused, who are victims of incest.

In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we’re united and enjoy life. Without unity, we are victims. Stay united.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one’s group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They’re ‘only rodents’. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They’re ‘just chickens’. They aren’t human, so they don’t count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn’t justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?

A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday’s executioner becomes today’s victim.

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

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.

Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They’re often angry, resentful, and envious, feeling unworthy or ashamed about their circumstances. Have you ever felt or acted this way?