Victim famous quotes

You can't be a victim and heal.
-- A. J. Langer

#Victim #Heal

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,
-- Al Sharpton

#Victim #Conferences #Prosecutor

Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.
-- Alan Parry

#Football #Victim #Downfall

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
-- Albert Camus

#Guilt #Victim #Made

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Good Man #Victim

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.
-- Albert Maltz

#Gestapo #Victim #Torture

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Snow #Footprint #Victim

Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?
-- Alicia Silverstone

#Fashion #Victim

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.
-- Ally Carter

#Want #Victim

No one can make you a victim but yourself.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#Victim

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims
-- Anne McCaffrey

#People #Victim

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
-- Anthony Anderson

#Innocence #Innocent #Victim

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Flames #Artistic #Victim

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Argument #Victim #Judged

in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
-- Barbara De Angelis

#Needs #Victim #Codependent

No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you?
-- Barbara Marciniak

#Believe #Conquer #Victim

I don't like to play the victim.
-- Barry Pepper

#Play #Victim

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Sound #Study #Victim

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.
-- Billy Tauzin

#Victim #Katrina

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
-- Brian Tracy

#Attitude #Victim #Masters

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
-- Brit Hume

#Feelings #Victim #Easily Offended

I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Victim #Genes #Masters

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
-- Byron Katie

#Victim #Stressful

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
-- Byron Katie

#Believe #Problem #Victim

Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.
-- Cai Guo-Qiang

#Book #Weapons #Victim

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
-- Cameron van der Burgh

#Victim #Unfortunate

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.
-- Carl Jung

#Brutality #Victim #Psychiatrist

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
-- Carol Tavris

#Writing #Victim #Memoir

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Nice #Being Nice #Victim

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.
-- Charles Stanley

#Children #Sovereign #Victim

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.
-- Chris Colfer

#Stories #Villain #Victim

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.
-- Chris Colfer

#World #Victim #Shows

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.
-- Christopher X. Brodeur

#Evil #Denial #Victim

I was very keen on playing a victim.
-- Clive Owen

#Victim

I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.
-- Daniel Sunjata

#Victim #Feels

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
-- David Emerald Womeldorff

#Fear #May #Victim

Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
-- David Emerald Womeldorff

#Fearless #Victim #Former

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
-- David Frum

#Government #Victim #Competing

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.
-- David Halberstam

#Careers #Facts #Victim

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.
-- David Hawkins

#Understanding #Virtue #Victim

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.
-- David Seabury

#Problem #Victim

Victims always feel alone and helpless.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Victim #Feels #Helpless

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.
-- Dennis Lehane

#Reality #Thinking #Victim

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
-- Diego Rivera

#Hurt #Happy Friday #Victim

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Coquette #Coquetry #Victim

Love makes everybody a victim because it's something you can't control. You can't control how you feel or what you're going through when you're doing it.
-- Drake Doremus

#How You Feel #Victim #Feels

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
-- E. M. Forster

#Eye #Entering #Victim

Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.
-- Edmund Smith

#Life #Sight #Victim

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

#Limits #Victim

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Killers #Victim #Concentration

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
-- Elie Wiesel

#War #Victim #Obligation

It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
-- Elie Wiesel

#Holocaust #Victim #Jew

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Men #Victim #Executioners

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims ...
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Order #Victim

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Want #Way #Victim

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Compassion #Welfare #Victim

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
-- Emile Durkheim

#Suicide #Negative #Victim

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

#Sweet #Revenge #Victim

How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?
-- Emily M. Danforth

#Sin #Victim #Willing

Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.
-- Eric Thomas

#Life Happens #Victim

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.
-- Ernest K. Gann

#Flying #Pilots #Victim

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!
-- Ernest Renan

#Islam #Firsts #Victim

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.
-- Ernst Zundel

#Risk #Groups #Victim

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

#Character #Gay #Victim

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
-- Fatou Bensouda

#Voice #Victim #Persons

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride,
-- Fatou Bensouda

#Inspiration #Pride #Victim

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
-- Francesca Annis

#Drama #Successful #Victim

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Humanity #Victim

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Easy #Victim

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
-- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#War #Survivor #Victim

We can only make ourselves the victim.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Victim

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.
-- Gloria Allred

#Rights #Civil Rights #Victim

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Victim #Realms

I am not going to play the victim.
-- Gloria Trevi

#Play #Victim

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.
-- Graham Norton

#Independence #Victim

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
-- Gregory Maguire

#Air #Crucible #Victim

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.
-- Gustave Le Bon

#Truth #Illusion #Victim

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
-- Harriett Woods

#Positive #Women #Victim

Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.
-- Henning von Tresckow

#Victim

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.
-- Henry Kirke White

#Care #Victim #Graves

I am a victim of my own behavior.
-- Henry R Brandt

#Life #Behavior #Victim

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Dupes #Emotion #Victim

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Passion #Justice #Victim

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Society #Pity #Victim

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.
-- Ibn Khaldun

#Defeat #Psychological #Victim

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Lasts #Well Known #Victim

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
-- James A. Baldwin

#Able #Victim #Threat

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
-- James Connolly

#Democracy #Unions #Victim

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.
-- James Langevin

#Children #Identity #Victim

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
-- James Surowiecki

#Victim #Mythology #Company

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.
-- Jane Wagner

#Sick #Trends #Victim

RG III a victim of his own swagger,
-- Jason Whitlock

#Swagger #Victim

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen

#War #World #Victim

You are a victim of the rules you live by.
-- Jenny Holzer

#Victim #Live By

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.
-- Jessica Hahn

#Looks #Victim #Circumstances

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.
-- John Edensor Littlewood

#Safety #Warning #Victim

In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.
-- John Edward

#Information #Helping #Victim

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
-- John Irving

#Writing #Stories #Victim

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

#Thinking #Wickedness #Victim

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
-- John Podhoretz

#Black #Victim #Homicide