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Quotes About Victims

Come può un'organizzazzione che si occupa delle vittime di guerra andarsene via, quando la guerra si fa più vicina e più violenta? E cosa diciamo al nostro staff e ai nosti pazienti: è stato bello, ma in fondo era un gioco, arrivederci e grazie, e scusate il disturbo?
~ Gino Strada
It is true, you know, although I cried, oh so many times when I thought of those people they were killing, I never never knew there were children too, or even women. I, too, rationalized it I suppose; I told myself, I suppose, that we were at war and that they were killing the men;
~ Gitta Sereny
But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination … then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.
~ Graham Greene
Sisters forever. Victims no more.
~ Gregg Olsen
Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims
~ Gregory David Roberts
There is in you, as there is in me, a morbid belief in love, and a fascination for the madness that love puts in its victims.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.
~ Gregory David Roberts
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.
~ Dick Cheney
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of Auschwitz to attain any given goal is tantamount to desecration of the memory of the victims whose ashes are scattered here.
~ Andrzej Duda
Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.
~ Jose Ramos-Horta
I don't just empathise with the victims of Islamophobia; I worry about my own friends and family.
~ Sadiq Khan
All acts of terrorism - all killings of the innocent - are an abomination, and one that is made all the worse when the victims are chosen for their skin color, ethnicity, sexuality or religious beliefs.
~ Max Boot
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.
~ Sebastian Barry
Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in their own time and place.
~ Sebastian Barry
Alarmistii fuseser? dintotdeauna victimele unei represiuni atât de s?lbatice, cât ?i de oculte.
~ Serge Brussolo
Diversity is about dissociation and legitimacy for American institutions, not the development of former victims.
~ Shelby Steele
Since my libertarianism puts me on the side of the victims of the state, I began to understand that the Palestinians were the latest in a long line of groups oppressed by political power. Jews, of course, have been similarly oppressed in many places; now some Jews, the Zionists, were in the role of oppressor. My childhood view of Israel was unraveling.
~ Sheldon Richman
Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them.
~ Mary Oliver
Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing.
~ Mary Oliver
I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
no view of men except as sacrificial animals and profiteers-on-sacrifice, as victims and parasites—that it permits no concept of a benevolent co-existence
~ Ayn Rand