Victim Quotes - Page 13

• Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Hype

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• I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.

  Shirley Manson

  Children, Fighting, Happy Life

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• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strong, Successful, Men

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• And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Beautiful, People, Matter

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• With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

  Jon Meacham

  Perspective, Matter, Doe

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• I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

  Paul Merton

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  "Are these Britain's greatest wits ... or twits?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.

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• It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Believe, Simple

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.249, Macmillan

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• The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

  Ezra Miller

  Character, Gay, Fantastic

  "SBIFF 2013: Ezra Miller Talks about THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, His Reaction When He First Read the Book, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

  Kate Millett

  Revolution, Oppression, Chiefs

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• The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Sides, Mindset, Hackers

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview With Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

  Alfred Molina

  Reading, Successful, Artist

  Interview With Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Emotional, Conflict

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• Over 13 percent of women in college have reported being a victim of stalking during the school year, and one out of every five college women has reported being sexually assaulted. It is simple to talk about statistics. It is more difficult to remember that each number is a victim and represents a daughter, a sister or a friend.

  Gwen Moore

  Daughter, Mother, School

  "The Campus SaVE Act: A Critical Step to Ending Violence Against Women" by Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, School, Cities

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Mean, Thinking, Views

  "The floating man" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

  Liam Neeson

  Mind, Pace, Exorcism

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• Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Fall, Men, Dogma

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• Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fall, Proud, Just Being

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• The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Needs, Entering

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, Image

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• The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

  Ted Nugent

  War, America, Evil

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• You are victors, not victims!

  Joel Osteen

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• Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

  Amos Oz

  Children, Past, Two

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth on PBS, 2002.

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• The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

  Pope John Paul II

  Death, Catholic, Dying

  "Pope John Paul Assails 'Free Love' in Poland". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 1991.

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• You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

  Dave Pelzer

  Cancer, Survivor, Mindset

  "I was never about boo hoo hoo". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2008.

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• What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

  Dave Pelzer

  Children, People, Abuse

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