Victim Quotes - Page 27

• You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

  T. Harv Eker

  Mean, Secret, Complaining

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 13, 2013

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• I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.

  Freeman Dyson

  Revenge, Science, Boys

  "Brilliant Light" by Oliver Sacks, www.newyorker.com. December 20, 1999.

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Fashion, Mean, Science

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• When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Angel, Sanctuary

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• "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Responsibility, Men

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• Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

  Peter Jennings

  Fear, Thinking, Atheism

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• Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Successful, Mind, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

  ""Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results" - Robin Sharma". Interview with Manoj Khatri, completewellbeing.com. Jan 12, 2016.

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• Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

  Thornton Wilder

  Bullying, Real, Perception

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• No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

  Boris Pasternak

  Strong, Compassion, Feelings

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1965). “The Poems of Dr. Zhivago”, p.134, Manchester University Press

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• Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Compassion, Divine Justice

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• Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Baby, Pro Life

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• Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former. Real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Real, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.353

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• Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Integrity, Gun, Doubt

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• How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don`t choose choicelessness! Otherwise, listening to me or to Sosan or Krishnamurti you will become enchanted by the word `choicelessness.` Your mind will say, "This is very good. Then ecstasy is possible and much bliss will happen to you if you become choicelessness. Then the door of the mysteries of life will be opened." The mind feels greedy. The mind says, "Okay, so I will choose choicelessness." The door is closed, only the label is changed, but you have fallen a victim of the old trick.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Doors, Listening

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• We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your insistence on man's moral responsibility. We thank the many Muslim nations who stand with us against terror. Nations that are often victims of terror, themselves.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Men

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• The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

  Tommy Makem

  Strong, Fighting, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

  James T. Rapier

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

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• We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

  Jane Powell

  Being Strong, Men, Ideas

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• There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weapons, Praise, Wells

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• Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Knives, May, Sometimes

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• Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Safe Haven, Two

  "Is It ISIS or ISIL? That Depends On Who You're Asking". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, wskgnews.org. September 14, 2014.

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• To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Change, Time, Truth

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• Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Liberty, Bombers, Libertarian

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