Victim Quotes - Page 18

• Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thankful, Encouragement, Power

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• For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Sacrifice, Vices

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Truth, Illusion, Masters

  Gustave Le Bon (2009). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.137, The Floating Press

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• Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Life, Leadership, Fall

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• an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Forgiveness, Crime, Perpetrators

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• Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

  Baudouin of Belgium

  Peace, War, Men

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• Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

  Jane Powell

  Being Strong, Strong, Silent

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• Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Animal, Vegetarianism, World

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• ...surely these victims of the sea...had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?

  John Rousmaniere

  Sea, Water, Judging

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• I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.

  Thomas Huxley

  Strong, Science, Intelligent

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.277, University of Georgia Press

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• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Humility, Reality

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley (p. 22-24), 1954.

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• I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Violence, Beats

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• Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

  Poul Hartling

  Compassion, Justice, Restoration

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• When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

  Peter De Vries

  Broken Heart, Home, Thinking

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

  Herbert Croly

  Running, Men, Long

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• The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Clothes, People

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• In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

  Oscar Handlin

  Expectations, Immigration, Shrinking

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• Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Judging, Police

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Law, Numbers, People

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• I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

  Shirley Chisholm

  White, People, Justice

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

  Frederick Douglass

  July, Years, Justice

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Justice, Diversity, Silence

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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• We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Hands, Justice

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.

  Kelly Miller

  Inspiration, Race, Justice

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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