Victim Quotes - Page 14

• Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

  Pink

  Suicide, Cutting, Two

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• The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

  Jon Porter

  Earthquakes, Generosity, Support

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• Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Community, World

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  If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

  Diego Rivera

  Hurt, Happy Friday, Obvious

  Diego Rivera (1960). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

  Mitt Romney

  Campaigns, Firsts, Obama Campaign

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• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Agency, Events

  "Salman Rushdie says he's glad he wrote The Satanic Verses". www.mirror.co.uk. October 1, 2008.

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Life, Competition

  Bertrand Russell (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Military, Philosophical, Numbers

  "On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération, June 22, 1953.

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• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Black And White, Shade, Behavior

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• In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

  Will Self

  Fall, Style, Fiction

  "Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2009.

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• I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Holocaust, Suffering

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• Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

  Mark Skousen

  Girl, Sex, Vacation

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• Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

  Susan Sontag

  Guilt, Innocence, Logic

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

  Susan Sontag

  Evil, Needs, Blame

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.74, Penguin UK

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• We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

  Kevin Spacey

  Hubris

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• What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

  Jock Sturges

  Children, Real, Artist

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• Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

  James Surowiecki

  Shells, May, Disaster

  "Disaster Economics". www.newyorker.com. December 3, 2012.

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• My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Loss, Focus, Towers

  "Interview: Kiefer Sutherland and The Reluctant Fundamentalist". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

  Max von Sydow

  Believe, Evil, People

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• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Book, Heart, Tragedy

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• And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

  Charlize Theron

  Jeans, Careers, People

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• London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

  Emma Thompson

  People, London, Outsiders

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• Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

  Gene Tierney

  Jealousy, Party, Thinking

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

  Simone Weil

  Crush, Truth, Men

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Suits You, Clothes

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