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“Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.”

Looks Children Two Past Parent Cases Conflict Victim Jew Oppressors

Author:Amos Oz

“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.”

Writing I Can Stories Simple Violence Victim Boring Shy

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”

Humans Death Century Dying Catholic Victim Cruelty Unborn Cemetery Human Cruelty

Author:Pope John Paul II

“You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.”

Victim Cancer Mindset Survivor Cancer Patients Inspirational Cancer Cancer Victim

Author:Dave Pelzer

“What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.”

People Children Stills Abuse Victim Child Abuse Distress

Author:Dave Pelzer

“Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.”

Knows Persons Two Different Problem Cutting Victim Suicide Symptoms Single Person

Author:Pink

“The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.”

Has Beens Support Victim Generosity Hurricanes Earthquakes Katrina Tsunami Hurricane Katrina

Author:Jon Porter

“Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.”

World Humans Ends Force Community Creating Victim Prepared Terror Terrorism Counter Terrorism

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.”

May Lasts America Literature Victim Mentality Victim Mentality Uncomplicated

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

Men Use Government Force Rights Dangerous Victim Threat Monopoly Bill Of Rights Physical Attraction Physical Force

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Evil requires the sanction of the victim.”

Evil Literature Victim Historical Sanctions

Author:Ayn Rand

“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.”

Ifs Wanted Hurt Victim Obvious Traits Disgusting Being Hurt Happy Friday Frida

Book:My art, my life: an autobiography

Source: My art, my life: an autobiography

“Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.”

Littles Left Accepting Fate Survival Victim Cancer Breast Cancer Little Time Cancer Survivor Breast Cancer Survivor People With Cancer Cancer Victim

Author:Ingrid Bergman

“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.”

Firsts Seems Victim Campaigns Obama Campaign

Author:Mitt Romney

“The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.”

Thinking World Doe Asks Our Lives Events Masters Shapes Asking Victim Agency Passive

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”

Life Funny Life Is Victim Competition Criminals Funny Life

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

“Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.”

People Break Habit Victim Excuse Willingness Bad Habits

Author:Carlos Santana

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

Hate Judging I Hate Victim Existential Fake People Respectability Executioners

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”

Way Numbers Military Philosophical Victim Defined Existentialism Fascism Existentialist

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”

Black White Millions Behavior Victim Gray Shade Black And White Realism Perpetrators Shades Of Gray

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“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.”

Ifs World Should Stills Fall Fiction Style Morality Method Victim Critics Insight Suspects Imperfect Favour Assured Mistrust Scribes

Author:Will Self

“No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.”

Men Children Has Beens Use Doubt Weapons Responsible Victim Innocent No Doubt Chemicals Regimes Syria Men Women Chemical Weapons Innocent Man

Author:Joe Biden

“I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.”

Thinking Suffering Clear Amount Victim Trade Slave Factories Holocaust Immense Nazi Farming Factory Farming Slave Trade

Author:Peter Singer

“Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.”

“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.”

Fall Rights Sacrifice Police Victim Sacred Terrorism Officers Police Officer Bathtubs

Author:Edward Snowden

“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”

Term Logic Victim Guilt Innocence Inexorable

Book:Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

“Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.”

Needs Evil Victim Blame Illness

Book:Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

“We're all victims of our own hubris at times.”

Victim Hubris

Author:Kevin Spacey

“What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.”

People Children Real Desire Artist Suffering Loses Forever Terrible Degrees Abuse Sight Victim Sexual Desire

Author:Jock Sturges

“Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.”

May Happens Happened Easier Victim Disaster Shells

Author:James Surowiecki

“My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.”

Loss Focus Victim Planes Towers

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.”

People Believe Evil Situation Devil Victim Don't Believe Deeds Indifference Misunderstanding

Author:Max von Sydow

“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”

Heart Book Natural My Heart Tragedy Victim Disaster Survivor Hurricanes Katrina History Books Natural Disaster Hurricane Katrina

Author:Ellen Tauscher

“And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”

People Knows Trying Shows Bigs Careers Victim Shirts Auditions Jeans T Shirt

Author:Charlize Theron

“London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.”

People Littles I Can Bits Havens Little Bit Victim Scared London Cruelty Outsiders Legislation

Author:Emma Thompson

“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”

Thinking Party Worst Victim Faults Jealousy Jealous

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.”

Thinking Men Firsts Doe Truth Force Truth Is Victim Crush

Book:War and the Iliad

Source: War and the Iliad

“If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.”

Ifs Looks Fashion Clothes Victim Suits Suits You

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

Trying Stills Reality Energy Realizing Too Much Youth Victim Rebellion Establishment Uprising

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.”

Ifs Way Persons Views Tree Victim Woods Point Of View

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”

Writing Fall Victim Knives Grammar Circus New Yorkers Precision Outlining

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.”

Whole Dies Universe Victim Concentration Camps Killers Concentration Camp

Author:Elie Wiesel

“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”

Views Psychology Economic Economics Victim Als Sociology Joyce Everyman

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.”

Needs May Helping Hands Involved Criticism Victim Fingers Storm Neighbor Offering Timing Pointing Helping Hand Pointing Fingers

Author:Jo Bonner

“You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.”

Watches Victim Aids

Author:Bono

“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”

Two Lying Literature Victim Rounds Innocent Innocence

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.”

May Has Beens Technology Information Majors Victim Drivers Globalization Information Technology

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”

Victim Series Accidents Insightful

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”

Long Book Enough Feelings Life Is Reading Ought Thousand Hundred Victim Refuge Oppressed New Books

Book:Over the Teacups

Source: Over the Teacups

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