Quotes About Victim

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don't see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

It would be years before I understood that tenderness is the weapon used by the torturer to win over his victim.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon, it has such a sturdy constitution, that it is readily regarded as something natural even by its victims.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (On giving up art to play chess)

But the chain of circumstances linked up, imprisoning her, the victim of an illness that has no remedy because it has no reason.

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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Every adversity in life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to break us or make us. The choice is ours whether we become victor or victim.

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

I'm in an abusive relationship with life. It keeps beating the hell out of me and I'm too cowardly to leave it.

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

After being arrested in June 2000, Reardon pleaded guilty of 75 counts of abuse, including rape, of 24 boys, and received up to 50 years in prison for his crimes. The YMCA quickly settled the boys' claims against it; but the church held out for another year.46 The Boston Archdiocese finally paid $85 million to settle the claims of 552 victims, including Reardon's, in September 2003.

Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vice, the turn-on with evil built into it, because it required a victim to manifest itself. Power implied subject and object. They needed some way to recognize (for everyone to recognize) that everybody was a subject.

Poor me. No one understands me. They don't love me. My family is the cause of my misery. I can't believe he gave that job to her, not to me." Victims may want to be rescued, but they don't want to be reminded of their inadequacies. Not taking responsibility for their actions is the hallmark of Victim behavior. Another defining characteristic is oversensitivity and clinging to their glass-half-empty perspective of life.

Forgiveness is letting go of the need to feel like a victim. Work on it. You'll lighten your load—the load of negativity you carry around.

According to this way of thinking, self-mutilation may be not so much self-punishment as it is a way to punish the rejecting mother—even if the wounds are kept hidden—because an internalized mother remains inside long after the infant recognizes that self and "other" are two separate entities. In fact, because self and other, inside and outside, remain hopelessly confused for cutters, victim and perpetrator can't really be distinguished from each other.