“We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.” PastAchieveGreatnessLetting GoVictimBitternessOur PastAchieve Greatness Author:Nelson Mandela
“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.” WorldFirstsStillsPastDiesStrongFateWorstVictimLeavingDeedsCurseHopelessPrime Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott
“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .” IfsLooksReasonPastSocialCausesResultsRaceBehindsClassPsychologyPerspectiveEconomicsPrejudiceVictimGenderAccidentsNo ReasonUpbringingCosmologySociological Author:James Hillman
“It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.” WorldYearsLongPastPracticeCrimeStrangeHundredMethodVictimAncientFoolishCrueltyPreservesWretchedness Book:The Story of My Life Source: The Story of My Life
“So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.” NeedsLongPastLawWorstDemandCreaturesVictimProtectionSexistBodyguard Author:Warren Farrell
“the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.” WorldYearsHumansHeartArtTwoPastSacrificeBattleThousandSkinsWeightVictimHeavyWarriorFiftyTwo YearsMexicoJaguars Author:Biloine W. Young