Victimization Quotes

• We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Society, Anarchy

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• The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Dream, Determination, Lying

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

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

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• Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Persons, Mentality

  Charlie Munger's comments on John Train at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Maturity

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Responsibility, Land, Modern

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Novelists, Victim, Treated

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 26, 2012

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• We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

  Camille Paglia

  Husband, Father, Responsibility

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• Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

  Stephen Covey

  Cancer, Emotional, Circles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

  Joy Kogawa

  People, Suffering, Use

  Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books

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• What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Males, Female

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.47, Vintage

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• Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.

  Shelby Steele

  Black, Agents, May

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• Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Character, Light

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.109, Mango Media Inc.

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• The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

  David Richo

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Privilege

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• Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

  Maya Angelou

  Party, Safety, Effort

  1976 Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

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• To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

  Iris Murdoch

  Power, May, Victim

  Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.77, Penguin

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• On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Female, Levels

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

  Shelby Steele

  Fate, Black, Conservative

  Shelby Steele (2009). “A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Writing, Child Abuse

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.

  Stephanie Davis

  Helping Others, Thinking, Soul And Body

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• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

  George Will

  Self, Names, America

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• So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Teenage, Drama

  "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.

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• Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.

  Sissela Bok

  Long, Risk, Doe

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

  Alan Ball

  Culture, Victimhood, Not Interested

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