Victim Quotes - Page 40

• I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

  Fernando Flores

  Communication, Heart, Saws

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• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  Wolfe Tone

  Brother, Children, Men

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• Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

  George S. Patton

  Fall, Fire, Decisions You Make

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• O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

  Jeremy Bentham

  Math, Destiny, Pedants

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.145

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• It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

  Paulo Freire

  Becoming, Imagine, Process

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Children, Agony, Government

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• Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.

  Carolyn Hax

  Jobs, Choices, Earth

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• A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Skulls, Doubt, Causes

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• Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible, the fear of failure. Never forget your personal legend. Your silent heart will guide you. Be silent now. It is the possibility of a dream that makes life interesting. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Fighting

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• Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Solitude, Our Society

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit vast areas to tribute payment, without altering the essential social constitution of their victims

  Eric Wolf

  Aztec, Essence, Cities

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• I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Fans, Fighter

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• Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Father, News

  "Pope, Anglican Head Offer Prayers for London Victims" by Pauline J. Chang, www.christianpost.com. July 7, 2005.

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• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

  Tina Turner

  Survival

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• We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

  Jeff Cooper

  Justified, Self Defense, Persons

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture its victim.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snakes, People, Energy

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• Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Men, Space

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.65, Image

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• Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Mother, Revenge, Son

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• You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

  Naomi Judd

  Next, Next Time, Accomplices

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• When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell you. You have no way of checking up on them. You have no way of deciding whether there is any truth in what they are saying.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Life And Death, Matter

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• I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion

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• Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free the victims and stop this increasingly aggressive crime which threatens not only individuals but the basic values of society.

  Pope Francis

  Effort, Humanity, Human Trafficking

  Pope Francis' Address Of To The New Ambassadors Accredited To The Holy See On The Occasion Of The Presentation Of The Letters Of Credence, w2.vatican.va. December 12, 2013.

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• When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Attachment, Stories

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, World, Millions

  The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 21, 2002.

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