Quotes About Victimization

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

De Kierkegaard y Heidegger, aprendemos que nuestro núcleo emocional es una profunda sensación de temor y culpa. De Marx, tenemos un sentimiento profundo de alienación, victimización y rabia. De Nietzsche, descubrimos una profunda necesidad de poder. De Freud, develamos las urgencias de una sexualidad oscura y agresiva. Rabia, poder, culpa, lujuria y temor constituyen el centro del universo emocional posmoderno.

It is a formula that binds the victim to his victimization by linking his power to his status as a victim

And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others. Because we think everyone else will judge us, victimize us, abuse us, and blame us as we do ourselves. So even before others have a chance to reject us, we have already rejected ourselves.

The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself. Be completely honest about your happiness. Don't project a false sense of happiness by telling everyone, Look at me. I'm a success in life, I have everything I want, I am so happy, when you don't like yourself.

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

No one cared what we watched or didn't, how we felt or what we wanted, and we hadn't yet become enthralled by the cult of victimization. It was, by comparison to what's now acceptable when children are coddled into helplessness, an age of innocence.

Whenever I heard certain people losing their shit about Trump my first reaction was always, You need to be sedated, you need to see a shrink, you need to stop letting the "bad man" help you in the process of victimizing your whole life.

The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous sisters and brothers on Turtle Island were killed at the hands of other Europeans, as nation after imperial nation, bearing Christ on their lips and crosses on their military standards, followed suit.21

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

Nos manchan y nos llagan, creo yo, los delitos del matón rural que roba previos de indios, vapulea hombres y estupra mujeres sin defensa a un kilómetro de nuestros juzgados indiferentes y de nuestras iglesias consentidoras

The woman whose shoulders tense slightly, who looks intimidated and shyly says, "No, thanks, I think I've got it," may be his victim. Conversely, the woman who turns toward him, raises her hands to the STOP position, and says directly, "I don't want your help," is less likely to be his victim. A

It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance, for there is an important distinction between destiny and sheer victimization.

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don't want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.

So many Republicans embraced Trump's view that they were victims, as was he, because they had actually believed this all along. Theirs was a white birthright, and the rise of nonwhites was an unjust usurping of their rights.

I never thought, in my life, I'd be sold. It's painful to say, as a human, 'I was sold.'

This was the trump card male bullies played, always. I was sick of it—sick of being scared of the bogeyman's dick.

Karla had not been a total loss—she had provided Hans-Peter with some amusement and he was able to sell both her kidneys.

And Colton used her, treated her like a muddy little dog.