Victim Quotes - Page 32

• Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights

  Tariq Ramadan

  Rights, Victim Mentality, Nurture

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• The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic.
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  I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Islamic, Rights

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• People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

  Mike Tyson

  Mistake, People, Boxing

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• Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Agents, Violence, Unconscious

  Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press

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• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Laughing, Aggressors

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• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Suicide, Revenge, Blood

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• The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Way, Next

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Light, Careers

  "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Newspaper, November 12. 1999.

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• When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Men, Firsts

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims

  Anne McCaffrey

  People

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• Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

  Roberto Rossellini

  War, Drama, Taken

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• And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

  Antonin Artaud

  Flames, Artistic, Form

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

  William J. Clinton

  Letting Go, Peace, Hate

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• It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

  Mike Royko

  Running, Dog, Cities

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• If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

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• We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Christian, Attitude, Mean

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.

  William Styron

  Depression, Cancer, Healing

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.

  Cecile Reynaud

  Dream, Athlete, Discipline

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• These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Land, Earth

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Children, Cancer

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• Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, "wild-eyed". This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.

  Naomi Klein

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "The grieving parents who might yet bring Bush down". www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2004.

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• The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mistake, Diagnosis, Evolution

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• Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

  Plato

  Plato, May, Injustice

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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• The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

  Kenneth Clark

  Educational, Ghetto, Dark

  Kenneth B. Clark (1989). “Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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