Quotes About Victims

The student movement's leaders and followers were together victims and propagators of a legend. We can see their illusion nowhere more clearly than in the requirement that the myth of a great student anti-fascist movement be sustained by the counter-myth of a serious student fascist conspiracy in opposition to it. The signal to arms requires an enemy; where none exists, he must be invented.

A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the "multiplier effect," it unfortunately carries more conviction.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

When a disease is very deadly, it kills its victims so rapidly that the pathogen does not have much time to spread. This is why the super-deadly Ebola epidemics that kindle in Africa every few years tend to burn out.

In almost every conflict, mortality is disproportionately male. But whereas men are the normal victims of war, women have become a weapon of war—meant to be disfigured or tortured to terrorize the rest of the population.

Supporters of the two men believed they were victims of a deeply ingrained prejudice against immigrants and radicals.

Attention : A la guerre Comme en temps de paix, L'égoïsme aveugle Fait plus de victimes Que tous les autres fléaux Semence de la Terre : le Livre des Vivants

At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station And not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation.

The inn looks quite luxurious, but their host explains that as the plague has racked up victims, people have grown more and more afraid to leave their homes, terrified to purchase things from those who have been stricken.

Treating rights as fundamental gives prominence to the perspective of victims, and lends itself all too readily to an emphasis on the form of rectificatory justice of most concern to victims, namely compensation.

Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. This is what we both certainly are. The revolution must be taking place somewhere, but the old morality persists unchanged in the world around us and lies athwart our way. However much the waves on the surface of the sea may rage, the water at the bottom, far from experiencing a revolution, lies motionless, awake but feigning sleep.

The revolution is far from taking place. It needs more, many more valuable, unfortunate victims. In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.

Victims of human trafficking have limited access to help and often do not self-identify, especially when they have been isolated from friends and family for long periods of time. Feelings of shame and fear of reporting to law enforcement may also add to a reluctance to seek help."   —National Human Trafficking Resource Center

Traffickers target victims on the telephone, on the Internet, through friends, at the mall, and in after-school programs.

This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from a unique and unrepeatable historical experience, are an unreliable guide to today's chaos, especially as it infects Anglo-America.

Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat oppression; beware of the oppressed.

Murphy interrupted. "Just one more question, Jeff. The medical examiner says he noticed flesh had been severed from the feet of the victims found in the blue drum. What about it?" Dahmer knowingly nodded. "Well, the flesh on the bottom of the feet is extremely tough. I found that by cutting off the sole and heel, it was easier for the muriatic acid to work on the bones of the foot.

Dahmer read the short clipping before putting it down on the table. "This is preposterous. I don't hate Black people." I reminded him that ten of his seventeen victims were Black men. "That may be, but I didn't target Blacks. I told you, I picked the ones I found most attractive. I had a physical profile; I wanted young, long, lean, smooth-skinned, muscular men. Color did not enter into it. If they fit the description and were nice looking, I would approach them.

Judge Gram quickly perused the document before announcing in a strong and steady voice the jury's 10–2 decision followed by a grim roll call of the victims. "Sane on all counts.

Jeffrey Dahmer's crimes against his victims were not about instilling fear, sadistic torture, or abuse. Dahmer killed because he had insatiable urges: lust, power, and complete sexual control over a passive male partner.

Dahmer seemed incapable of participating in a stable relationship, so instead chose to pick up partners for casual encounters, or, in most cases, offered his victims money to pose for photographs at his apartment. Not surprisingly, the inability to maintain healthy relationships is common amongst many serial killers.