Victim Quotes - Page 15

• I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Reality, Uprising, Trying

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• If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Views, Tree, Woods

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• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Writing, Knives

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.159, Cornell University Press

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• In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

  Elie Wiesel

  Killers, Concentration, Camps

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• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Views, Psychology, Als

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• Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

  LZ Granderson

  Assessment, Self, Blame

  "Negligent parents, lawbreaking kids" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, May, Information

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• Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Decision, Marketing

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• I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Insightful, Accidents, Series

  The Sirens of Titan ch. 10 (1959)

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• What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Book, Reading, Long

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.157, Reprint Services Corporation

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• People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Liars, Lying

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

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• Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

  Tom Stoppard

  Traitor, Knows

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.82, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Stress, Long, Car

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.49, University of Arizona Press

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• Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stupid, Writing, Race

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2010.

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• For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Love You, Farewell

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• The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Men

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• A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

  Stephen Crane

  Wise, Men, Assassins

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vegetarianism, Animal Rights

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• She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Civilization, Links

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.8, Xist Publishing

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• I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reality, Compassion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 31, 2013

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• The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

  Tom Robbins

  Redneck, Men, White

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• Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

  Gary Chapman

  Running, Children, Long

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2012). “The 5 Love Languages of Children”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

  Ayn Rand

  Accessories, Murder, Torture

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.435, Penguin

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• Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

  Billy Corgan

  Fashion, Sadness, Bullshit

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• Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Clothes, Judging, Heaven

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