Quotes About Victim

Many people view almost all relationships as interactions between victims and oppressors

even after he had slipped a knife between your shoulder blades, you would think that this was somehow your fault.

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

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

A leopard, on the other hand, even after it has killed scores of human beings, never loses its fear of man; and, as it is unwilling to face human beings in daylight, it secures its victims when they are moving about at night or by breaking into their houses at night. Owing

I wish I could say I was a victim but I willingly played into the devil's hands. My reasons weren't always right and my justifications weren't just, but my weaknesses were common.

only thing worse than being a victim in this world was being a witness.

There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would seem to overthrow all the intricate, vital, slowly developed mechanism of mind, to plunge the victim into a chaotic half-world of confusion and loss. This is what had happened to Anna.

She herself did not seem quite real. She was pale and almost transparent, the victim I used for my own enjoyment in dreams.

Systematic bullying when she was most vulnerable had distorted the structure of her personality, made a victim of her, to be destroyed, either by things or by human beings, people or fjords and forests; it made no difference, in any case she could not escape. The irreparable damage inflicted had long ago rendered her fate inevitable.

There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

Silence encourages the tormentors not the tormented

Sometimes, Helena continued, I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and emperors and take power for themselves. Instead of letting one victim bear this frightful curse they will take it all on themselves, each one of them. Think of the misery of a whole world possessed of Power without Grace.

In the 1970s, as inflation took off and growth slowed, Western societies seemed to have fallen victim to excessive state intervention in the economy, embracing wage and price controls and other supposed remedies that only made things worse.

A society so undisciplined in its cultural foundations could obviously not help but be a victim

A alma humana é vítima tão inevitável da dor

Cuidado con los políticos para quien todo el mundo es «víctima» de las circunstancias… o «culpable» de

the far-right is the white man's #MeToo movement. Not only am I not guilty, but I am in fact a victim.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

Who can be a greater transgressor of human rights than a terrorist?