We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Victim Quotes from Bret Stephens, Wayne Newton, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Emily Thornberry, Anthony Anderson. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
Sure, I’ve been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
It is easy to kill when you don’t see your victim.
The Human Rights Act has not just given a voice to victims, but to the families who have to fight for the victim where the victim has died.
Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
A lot of negative stuff has happened to me – that’s why I’m tough – but I don’t want people to be like, ‘Oh, poor Becky,’ because I’m not a victim.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim.
Anyone, any type of story, it doesn’t have to be a crime victim, you don’t have to let yourself be food for the media.
I’d read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, ‘Please, don’t hurt this guy.’ That’s the key to suspense. It’s easy to disgust a reader. It’s much harder to make them care.
People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who’d been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.
How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn’t being strong, it’s being a victim.
I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children, and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim’s data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent third-party digital currency exchangers, or any other third-party financial institution, would be an utterly unwarranted and unjust misinterpretation both of law and policy.
I became a victim of my own good work in ‘Buniyaad.’ It established my credentials as an actor but I became Babuji forever, the benevolent father figure with a perpetual smile, who has a discourse on sanskaar ready.
I’m a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.
As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.
Kushner is the victim of exaggerated speculation supported by little evidence. Because of his affiliation with the Trump White House and the Trump family, he is subject to the perverse standard of guilty until proven innocent. It is a grotesque miscarriage of justice indeed.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
You’re made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.
I must learn to adapt, or else I’ll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.
As long as we suspect female actors of being somehow complicit in their own victimization, as willing participants in their own humiliation, we shame the victim and enable the culture of silence that allows predators to act with impunity.
I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person within the church. I do encourage any person who believes they have been a victim of abuse to come forward and to inform the police.
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
Our Armed Forces are built upon unity and teamwork, but intersectional philosophy depends on dividing people into warring victim groups.
‘Ashes To Ashes’ is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It’s so much more flattering.
As we get older, we become more political in terms of survival. We realize a certain amount of cunning is necessary and that you just end up a victim when you are totally honest in an environment where those around you arent. It’s a matter of remaining true to yourself while continuing to move forward.
Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.
If someone would tease me about my hair, I would laugh… if someone called me black, I would laugh. I just took things in my stride. I was never made a victim.
If I don’t see myself as a victim, then I’m not a victim.
I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you’re a victim, that you’re unwanted and don’t belong.
I don’t want to be a victim. I want to be a victor.
I can only say, don’t be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.
I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It’s like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn’t great for a happy life.
Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are ‘woe is me.’ I’m not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don’t necessarily think that’s how it is, in real life, and I don’t think that’s how it should be in films.
I don’t want to come across as a victim with a sob story. I’ve got a fantastic life. I’m not a victim. I thank the bullies out there for making me who I am. Some people become weaker, but the bullies made me stronger.
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn’t perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
First acting gig was playing a victim in ‘America’s Most Wanted.’ The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
There’s no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.
Trayvon Martin was the product of a broken home. He was also a victim of the corrupt civil-right leaders who peddle racism infecting the minds of young blacks.
On paper, I refuse to position myself as a victim and say, ‘Oh, see, this is hard for me, and I’m never going to get any work because they’re never gonna look for a half-French, half-Cambodian girl.’ I’ve always said, ‘Carry on and work on your job, and at some point, it’ll come.’
This is the problem with modern-day feminism. It used to be about equality. Now, it’s about bashing men, asking for free stuff, and tearing down other women for refusing to play victim to the trumped-up, B.S. ‘War on Women.’
As we get older, we become more political in terms of survival. We realize a certain amount of cunning is necessary and that you just end up a victim when you are totally honest in an environment where those around you arent. It’s a matter of remaining true to yourself while continuing to move forward.
I’m a bit of a vault of secrets. I’m a victim of English reserve, which is slightly in contrast to how I communicate when I auction.
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
To be honest I would like to do more movies, I’ve been a victim of my own success in that sense, as if you have a TV character that really endures, it’s really hard to get into film.
I got burned by napalm, and I became a victim of war.
Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
‘The Daily Mail’ interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I’m a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn’t appear. I’m really pretty boring.
I don’t like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don’t even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause ‘collateral damage’ to machines that aren’t the intended victim.
When you’re the victim of the behavior, it’s black and white; when you’re the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.
I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.
A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
The entertainment industry has three kinds of politics – sexual politics, money politics and power politics. A desperate actor can become victim of any of these political games.
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
I wasn’t unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you’ll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.
When I read Mike Webster’s file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
War is a tragedy. It’s not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody’s a victim, from the one who’s suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.
The world of marketing has changed. You can lead the change or be a victim of change.
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.
I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn’t perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Until feminists started wailing about the female’s passivity, submissiveness, and something called ‘victim status,’ I had no idea women were such doormats. My childhood was populated by Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Pearl Buck, Marie Curie, Clare Boothe Luce, and the Duchess of Windsor.
I think there are lots of those moments when we meet people – listeners at a meet-and-greet – and they tell us that they’ve changed their major to forensic science, or criminal justice, or they’ve become a victim’s advocate.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
It’s really frustrating when you’re an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, ‘This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card – this is his address,’ and they say, ‘We don’t have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.’
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn’t permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can’t visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can’t.
Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn’t a person in the United States who couldn’t identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
It’s unfortunate, I’ve been the victim of some Australian press.
To make it big, a fighter needs power. Otherwise, sooner or later, he’ll fall victim to opponents who force the issue and take two or three punches to land one.
Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, ‘stuck’ person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.
Michael Cohen is the furthest thing from a victim.
The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it’s possible that I’m a victim of my own job description. Others don’t inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.
I believe that if you think about what style means, you won’t become a fashion victim.
From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.
We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.
The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can’t be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we’re invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
I was the victim of physical and psychological violence, so in order to preserve my personal and professional dignity, I wish to end the contact that ties me to Sporting.
In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that’s completely misguided.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don’t have to hurt anybody to be really funny.
I have never been a victim of antisemitism – if you put to one side my war-time experience. That said, I am lucky not to have been sent into a concentration camp.
Don’t be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show ‘Crime Stories?’ No, it’s crucial.
I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.
The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don’t let show business push you around.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on – I’ve got some great lies for you this month.
I was not a young fashion victim. I really had an idea of what I liked in fashion and how I dressed.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it’s not a victim that appears on camera, usually there’s a victim. If it’s political comedy, if you’re talking about the president or whoever, there’s a victim there.
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim’s injury.
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government’s failure to prevent this disaster.
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim’s close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between ‘the accuser’ and ‘the accused,’ there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim – a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its environment or mutations in its genes.
I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don’t have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.
‘Stop playing the victim.’ – unless you’ve been cast in a community theater production of ‘Law & Order: SVU,’ I’m not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.
That’s not a villain, that’s a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
I dislike the word ‘victim.’ I dislike being told that I ‘lost’ my husband – as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn’t permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can’t visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can’t.
As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn’t look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.
Why did the Pakistani military attack us on behalf of JeM? You not only keep JeM on your soil but fund them, and when the victim country retaliates, you attack it on the terror outfit’s behalf.
I can’t do victim roles – it makes me sick.
It takes courage to come forward, and I don’t want any victim of sexual harassment to think twice about doing so.
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles – poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
I am a victim of introspection.
I believe the public therefore expect the justice system to focus on rehabilitation to reduce the risk of subsequent offending – and the likelihood of them becoming a victim of crime.
They say that it’s rare, and for the longest time, I felt alone being a victim of TSS. It not only left physical wounds but mental ones. I battled PTSD and fell into a dark depression after what happened. I melted into my bed, and life just sort of stopped.
In the law, you have people whose lives have changed because some dirtbag decided to do something to them. We should call it the criminal injustice system. The victim didn’t choose to be a victim.
This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
I have been the victim of heartless malice.
If you’re not a victim, and you don’t need help, then you’re definitely seen as a threat as a woman.
In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.
Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.
But over 20 years ago I was a victim of rape. And thank god it didn’t result in a pregnancy. Because I can’t imagine going through what I went through and then having to consider what to do about an unwanted pregnancy from an attacker.
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
E-mail is a victim of its own success.
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.
Beatbullying’s ‘The Big March 2012’ is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.
If you are born black, and you don’t accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question.
Poor Ron Paul. He means well. He really does. But there’s something about him. I don’t know what it is. From falling victim to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno to that old-man shuffle, he just seems like kind of a… like kind of a sissy.
Every person has a choice in every situation and I decided not to be a victim of crime and to not allow myself to be crippled with fear. This is why I started Unbreakable. I wanted to teach women the self-defence skills I learnt during a course I participated in.
If you can’t take the heat, don’t be on that street… I get abused every day, and I don’t cry on anybody’s shoulder. I don’t play the victim card. I get abused, threatened – not only on Twitter but off it, also.
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
I’m very proud of Arizona as being a leader. They’re tired of being a victim.
I do think there are trends in your life once you’ve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
We need to have a system whereby, when a victim walks into a police station, she can be confident that she will be believed and that every effort will be made find evidence to support her in court.
We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used against Howard Dean as a peace candidate who was doing well. So, in many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake Left while it moves Right and becomes more corporatist, more militarist, more imperialist.
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.
The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.
It is so easy to fall victim of everybody else’s definition of what you should be.
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can’t write a story where someone is a simple victim because it’s boring.
If you’ve ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you’ve been the victim of undermining.
Although study after study shows black men are more likely to be victims of crime, rarely do they receive victim treatment. When black athletes are crime victims, the undertone seems to be they somehow were at fault.
That’s not a villain, that’s a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.
The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.
The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
It doesn’t take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.
I certainly don’t feel like I’ve been the victim of typecasting.
What happens often – although I’m not particularly a victim of this sort of thing – is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the ‘net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!
Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.
Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.
People will throw stones and hide their hands and then get back and play victim.
I’m not a victim – I never want to be perceived that way.
I don’t do the victim mode. I don’t do blame. I can’t bear that.
Everybody is not a victim.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
It’s easy to dismiss terrorism and point to its rarity, until someone you know and love becomes a victim of it.
Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn’t like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture, when I was agony, naked, so ugly? I wished that picture wasn’t taken.
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on ‘ER.’ The makeup artist put burn makeup all over my body and I couldn’t move or eat for 12 hours. I lost 8 pounds that week.
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father’s fury – once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belong. It’s incredibly vulnerable to be an actor and also get criticism at a young age when you’re formulating who you are. We’ve seen a lot of people fall victim to that, and it’s very unfortunate.
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet – 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
I’ve been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn’t get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
Perhaps one day we’ll be able to identify and block not just scams but the scammers themselves – before they even target their first victim.
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual – but it’s never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It’s horrific.
You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.
Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.
Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.
When various Democrats up to and including Sen. Barbara Boxer objected to previous Electoral College votes in 2004 and 2016, they were not the victim of cancel mobs. In fact, they were praised by the media and Democratic Party leaders.
Unfortunately, in Nevada – and more specifically, in Las Vegas and Reno – we’ve experienced incidents of human trafficking. In Las Vegas, the average trafficking victim is as young as 14. We must act to prevent this disturbing criminal activity from occurring in our communities.
If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
I want to create or be a platform for people who have been labelled as a victim. I’m not going to be their voice; that’s their voice. I want to allow people to voice their life beyond labels.
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
I’ve never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
Pakistan is also a victim of terrorism. We obviously condemn all forms of terrorism; we should cooperate in facing the menace and stem it.
If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.
I think it’s so wrong to play the victim. There’s too many brave women out there that just won’t even tolerate it, you know?
One thing I want to say: I don’t like victim stories and I don’t write them.
I am happy with all the films I’ve done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
My big ‘don’t’ would be wearing something just because someone told you it looks cool. I think a lot of people fall victim to that – of doing something that’s a trend, but then you can tell if they don’t own it or don’t like it.
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-’70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.
Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a ‘good’ dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way.
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
To those who don’t know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.
I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom ‘Friends.’ Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch ‘Friends.’ I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I’m the lucky one.
There’s certainly an attitude in some measure of the conservative movement that I believe won’t accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and I think Obama did fall victim to that – witness the ‘birthers.’
From a victim’s point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors provide part of the explanation.
I’m drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren’t just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
I don’t believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.
Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
Before Covid, the first victim of my busy schedule used to be my workout. Then, luckily, the lockdown gave me more than enough time to start a vigorous regime. I had all the time in the world to build lean muscle without going the route of fat burners or unhealthy supplements.
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.
I myself have been the victim of some absolutely horrific speech throughout the years; I know how bad it can make you feel – and yet, I still believe firmly that no words directed at me could ever feel worse than having to worry about losing my right to use my own.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
My natural state is to be happy. I’m naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, ‘What a great morning!’ I’ve had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don’t know one human being who hasn’t. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It’s life, after all.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
I get one horrible comment very rarely, and I wouldn’t say I’m a victim of awful, constant trolling like a lot of people are in the industry.
In the public eye, being a victim of past injustices does not win the right to propagate current and future ones, and that’s intolerable to those in charge of the race industry today, whose power relies on maintaining forever a latent rage that can be turned on and off at the will of the nation’s elites.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we’ve been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.
I’m interested in looking for solutions because it’s become the case that in fashion you’re either a villain or a victim. Look at the industry’s very limited remit in terms of body size, for example.
I’ve never seen myself as a victim because of my physicality. If I did play that game, I wouldn’t be the comedian that I am.
I don’t do damsel in distress very well. It’s hard for me to play a victim.
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.
I was the victim of a violent attack in March 2008. I had sulphuric acid thrown in my face and was severely injured leaving me with loss of site in my eye and full thickness burns on my neck, chest, face and hands.
Kashmiri Pandits are the worst victim of intolerance who were forced to leave their houses, I saw their camps and am appalled to see the conditions they are forced to live in.
I’m a private victim of a peculiar household.
Victims don’t want to know they’re victims. I guess that’s just victim psychology: if you don’t know about it, it’s not really happening.
If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
I’ve faced a lot of struggle and been a victim of backstabbing.
I am not the victim, and I won’t be the victim in football or life.
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
I’d rather be a victor than a victim.
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well – all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
I’m not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.
I wouldn’t say I’m a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
When so-called child’s play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.
I’ve fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It’s never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
Sure, I’ve been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.
I don’t want to be a victim.
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.
I’m not a victim – I’m a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.
For years I’ve wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the premise for ‘The Keepsake’ occurred to me: what if an ‘ancient’ mummy turns out to have a bullet in its leg? How does a modern murder victim get turned into a mummy?
In the media, waterboarding is called ‘simulated drowning,’ but that’s a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.
I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim ‘Don’t worry anymore. They’re in jail.’ And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that’s chase down the predator.
I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all – whether it’s fancy, cheap or, I’m ashamed to say, even if it’s bad for the environment.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
I’m always playing mostly the nice girl or the victim. I think it’s perhaps what directors think about me.
ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I’m put upon. I suffer.
As a former victim of childhood sexual abuse, my position is unwavering when it comes to speaking out against the hypersexualization of our children.
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there’s the nagging worry that maybe… you’re just no good.
You can’t come into this world without becoming its victim.
I was definitely an 80s fashion victim who drank the Kool-Aid.
We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer’s conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.
The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim’s injury.
Society’s preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence. The violent death of Jesus is, humanly speaking, an example of this strange process.
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
When people don’t like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
When you have a child victim, I don’t think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.
I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad.
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It’s a mindset.
Letting the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund close is not an option.
This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.
I hope that I will be the last victim in China’s long record of treating words as crimes.
I’m not a victim, and I don’t need to behave like one.
I want to create a platform for those people who want to come to this field. These people will face hurdles and problems that don’t allow them to show their talent. So I want to make a platform that they can easily access, and then, at least, they won’t be a victim of these problems.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
I don’t like to play the victim.
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
I translated an Emile Zola book, ‘The Belly of Paris,’ because I didn’t find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.
If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
I’m very proud of ‘The Office’ – it was one of the best things I’ll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that’s you, that’s what you are, and that’s what you’ll play forever.
Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I’m not proud of it; I’m just being honest.
Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim – not in any collectively accessible way.
I’m just very interested, fascinated, heartbroken, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our need to find peace on that front… Everyone’s always, like, victim and avenger at the same time.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations – her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
You’re not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.
My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa’s significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can’t hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
I’m a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.
Applying criminal law to the exchange of bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims would create a morally shocking result of re-victimizing a victim. All lawfully operating digital currency exchanges would thereafter refuse to exchange bitcoin for ransomware victims for fear of criminal culpability.
I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered ‘losers,’ drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
I am a victim of oral cancer, a victim of cigarette smoking.
Trump is not the victim of the judicial system; he is or has been the defendant in 3,500 lawsuits – that’s not the mark of a victim but rather a perpetrator.
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows – except us – that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
I was a prosecutor for many years, I’m a crime victim myself, and I’ve tried so many cases I don’t even know how many anymore.
You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don’t see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don’t expect to pounce on you.
Our challenge is to stop people from driving drunk. Punishing them afterwards doesn’t bring back the victim or make the family feel better. The idea is to stop the DWI before it happens.
My mom and dad are from the streets. My mom’s from Chicago. My dad’s from Memphis. My dad got out of school and got with my mom. They were hustlers. They were from the streets. They were doing their thing. The streets ain’t got no love for the streets. You can light up the streets, or be a victim of the streets.
I’ve been many people. I’ve been the skinny girl. I’ve been the fat girl. Because I’ve become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to ‘Well, I don’t have to look good anymore.’
