Victim Quotes - Page 3

• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Bystanders, History

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.143, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.

  John Leo

  America, Europe, People

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• I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

  Jane Wagner

  Sick, Trends

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• Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.

  Jack Welch

  Helping Others, People, Succeed

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• Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.

  Richard Paul Evans

  People, Problem, Winner

  Richard Paul Evans (2011). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Strength, Moving, Simplicity

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• There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

  Storm Jameson

  Satisfaction, Misery, Unhappiness

  Storm Jameson (1932). “That was yesterday”

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• We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

  Terence McKenna

  Flames, Mind Blowing, Looks

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• War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Years, Long

  "Why Are We in Kosovo?" by Susan Sontag, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 1999.

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• People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

  Alexandra Fuller

  Heart, Car, People

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.215, Random House

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• Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Mean, College, Hands

  "Has Feminism Gone Too Far?". "Think Tank" with Ben Wattenberg, www.pbs.org. 1995.

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• The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

  Anna Quindlen

  America, Literature, May

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• I hate victims who respect their executioners.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fake People, Hate, Judging

  Les S‚questr‚s d'Altona (The Condemned of Altona, 1960) act 1, sc. 1

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Land, Lines

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

  James A. Baldwin

  Real, Men, White Man

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

  Dennis Miller

  Fear, People, Common Sense

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• People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

  Richard Paul Evans

  People, Victimhood, Blinded

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Accidents, Fortunate, Series

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• I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

  John Lennon

  Pain, Insane, Blame

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• I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Hatred, Auschwitz

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

  Judith Butler

  Trying, Groups, Divides

  Source: ilga.org

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