Quotes About Victim

Nor could you clarify this confusion by assuming that the old man had been a victim of hallucination. Bartholomew wasn't that type of person. He was neither a liar nor a fool.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. It took courage. Not cowardice.

Just because she and Jon were victims of an obsessed stalker in Colorado, that does not mean it will happen again here.

I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

Human sacrifice," the skull chirped brightly. "The slaughter of an innocent.

The illness of deifying the boss is the illness of those who flatter their superiors hoping to get their goodwill. They are victims of careerism and opportunism, they honor people and not God.

The dog's story was just another tragedy among innumerable similar cases that are seldom brought to light because the principals involved cannot tell their own stories.

But even the innocent blow of a child can be painful, possibly more so than that of an adult since its victim cannot bring himself to strike back. His only recourse, when the pain becomes unbearable, is to put himself beyond the child's reach.

There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object. (111)

This emphasis on perceived refinements of character and of manner and of taste tended to distort and to flatten, and ultimately to suggest not the actual victim of an actual crime but a fictional character of a slightly earlier period, the well-brought-up virgin who briefly graces the city with her presence and receives in turn a taste of "real life".

the favored victim in the tabloid headline . . . was young, white, middle class and 'attractive'.

If you scream, people say you're melodramatic; if you submit, you're masochistic; if you call names, you're a bitch. Hit him and he'll kill you. The best thing is to suffer mutely and yearn for a rescuer, but suppose a rescuer doesn't come?

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

I did nothing wrong, I am the one being punished and lied to.

I did nothing to you and you were being mean... therefore, I am the victim.

Self pity is most destructive & self punishable emotion.Self pity gets you no where. It makes victim of being away from reality. One must have courage to accept oneself with pride & strive to present best of himself.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

Do not be victim of circumstances. You have three choices. Let it define you. Let it destroy you, let it strengthen you. Choice is yours.

Do not let the bully victimize you and make you hate yourself, Stand up for yourself don't fall for anyone's trap.

No, no, now you listen—you—this whole time. The bruises—it was Lehrer. Not Gordon. Lehrer. He—I was fourteen, Noam! I was . . . but he . . . and I couldn't tell anyone because, god, didn't even need his power!" Dara laughed, a mad sound, and he wasn't touching Noam anymore, had both hands pressed up against his own skull. "No one believed me.

There was only one solution to this alienation that was created not by the Negro or the bastard, but by the real bastards, the racists and colonizers who blamed the victim for the conditions that the victimizer created. And that solution was "to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me, to reject the two terms that are equally unacceptable, and, through one human being, to reach out for the universal.

All the stories had a common thread—that somehow the victims had brought the murders on themselves…

In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.