“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.” WantFeelsPersonsLife IsWishEmotionObjectsPrejudiceVictimReleaseUnhappinessIrrelevantSubjectiveDissatisfaction Author:Pearl S. Buck
“Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.” SexFantasyCuttingFeminismObjectsFemaleVictimMalesContemporaryDominantOppressorsParanoidSpun Author:Camille Paglia
“Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.” ObjectsVictimValuableThievesDistinguished Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.” MenNeedsChildrenReasonPhilosophyCertainKnowledgeObjectsPerceptionVictimPhilosopherFoolishAbsurdAll TimeAcquireFalsehoodSuccessionPartiality Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.” IfsFirstsMadeSoundWaterDarkObjectsDiseaseArmyTownsVictimFaultsDuesTrialsSatisfiedChiefsPostsFirmAncestorSiteCattleLiverAbnormal Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.” WellsShowsEarthMotherCultureReligiousObjectsDestructionMachinesVictimPossessionContemporaryIdeologyToysRepresentationMother EarthContamination Author:Jane Caputi
“There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.” PeopleWayIdeasHateCoursesObjectsI HateVictimBlameNativeScholarOppressedSectionsColonizationEtcetera Author:Joseph Boyden
“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.” HumansMatterProblemAnimalMagicObjectsTvsDegreesVictimShoesTricksCommoditySandwichesCellphoneInanimate ObjectsMagic Tricks Author:Gary Yourofsky
“I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsPersonsAmericaRaceObjectsConnectionsVictimSorryConvincedDespiteSorry For Him Author:Rush Limbaugh