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Quotes About Victim

In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost.
~ Victor Hugo
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Psychiatrists use tortures you have never even heard of! They drug their patients and send huge jolts of electricity through their brains to destroy nerve responses! And that isn't all! At a whim, they take a steel probe, push it under the eyelids and scramble the prefrontal lobes! They have no intention of curing anyone. They are simply making it impossible for the victim to get well. Ever! AND THEY KNOW IT!
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Los restantes que he asesinado o torturado solo han sido víctimas de mi odio brutal, en ningún caso de mi sadismo; para eso se requiere amor
~ Ladislav Klíma
I think not. I prefer my victims to know who killed them." "So they can dream of your lovely face for all their eternal slumber," said Hazael. "It's a blessing to die at the hand of someone beautiful,
~ Laini Taylor
She felt like that worst thing—a victim.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
One victim was sixteen-year-old John Steinbeck. The future author of The Grapes of Wrath returned home from his Californian school one day looking 'pale and dizzy
~ Catharine Arnold
He "had business at Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska" where the wayward boys were being traumatized and sexually abused in accordance with the Catholic involvement in Project Monarch. Survivor Paul Bonacci of the infamous Franklin Cover-up case has named Alex Houston as one of his abusers there in Boys Town.
~ Cathy O'Brien
I sometimes avoid reading a news story when the victim is Asian, because I don't want to pay attention to the fact that no one else is paying attention. I don't want to care that no one else cares. Because I don't want to be left stranded in my rage.
~ Cathy Park Hong
The detective cleared his throat. It sounded like he was reading. "At seven twenty p.m., an officer in Rock Creek Park interrupted an assault and robbery in progress. The victim was a female
~ Geraldine Brooks
Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.
~ Gloria Steinem
To ACCEPT something and suffer is to become a victim. To accept that something is AS IT IS and then let it go or say no is to be ENLIGHTENED.
~ Gordana Biernat
What was it about disfigurement, however arbitrary the source, that led the mind to underestimate, even dismiss the victim …
~ Gordon Dahlquist
You're either an agent of change, or a victim of it
~ Gordon G. Chang
Debugging — the classic mystery game where you are the victim, the detective, and the murderer.
~ Internet meme
One of the meanings of what is called a victim ( a victim of anything or anyone whatsoever) is precisely to be erased in its meaning as victim. The absolute victim is a victim who cannot even protest. One cannot even identify the victim as victim. He or she cannot even present himself or herself as such. He or she is completely covered by language, annihilated by history, a victim one cannot identify.
~ Jacques Derrida
On the evening of November 1, at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Eisenhower addressed the tensions in the Mediterranean by letting fly a salvo of antitribal idealism, declaring, "We cannot and will not condone armed aggression—no matter who the attacker, and no matter who the victim. We cannot—in the world, any more than in our own nation—subscribe to one law for the weak, another law for the strong; one law of those opposing us, another for those allied with us.
~ James D. Hornfischer
My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.
~ Hilda Solis
Stalking is a serious crime with serious consequences.
~ Lisa Madigan
Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
~ Lisa Madigan
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
~ Rod Steiger
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
~ William Shakespeare
It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.
~ Ludwig von Mises