Victimhood Quotes - Page 2

• I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Two, Silence, Feminist

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Time, Pain, Blow

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• You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

  Doreen Virtue

  Uplifting, Healing, Forgiving

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• There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am."

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Pain, Mean, Past

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

  James Taranto

  College, Rights, Views

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• The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like.

  Robert Bly

  Warrior, Boys, Men

  Robert Bly (2004). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.149, Da Capo Press

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• Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Self, Temptation

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• A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

  Criss Jami

  Thieves

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.36, Criss Jami

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• The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Self, Feminist, Movement

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• When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Mean, Hatred

  "After Ferguson we need a national commission on justice" by Donna Brazile, www.cnn.com. December 1, 2014.

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• I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

  Kevin Starr

  Stories, Victim, Bigs

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply means, "I'm no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul." You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

  Doreen Virtue

  Uplifting, Karma, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 28, 2011

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• The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release all tendencies toward victimhood, stagnation, passivity, and self-destruction that keep us disempowered or cause frustration and suffering to ourselves and others. This is no easy task, and one in which we can use all the divine support possible to help us on our way. It is a time to pray.

  Sonia Choquette

  Journey, Frustration, Self

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• If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiving, Would Be, Mercy

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

  Alan Ball

  Culture, Not Interested, Victimization

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• If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Comfort, Succeed, Tribes

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.96, Macmillan

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• A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

  Serge Schmemann

  Middle East, Narrative, Insult

  "From the Editor" by Serge Schmemann, www.nytimes.com. December 02, 2010.

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• A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.

  Joseph Sobran

  Hypocritical, Victim, Force

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• At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Stories, Redemption

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