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“It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.”

“From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.”

“It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.”

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Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.”

Years Kids Wanted Political Reading Born Victim Awakening Hated Rebel Essays Eighteen Executioners Okinawa Great Political Eighteen Years Old

Author:Sam Hamill

“I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.”

Born Abuse Victim Scar Assault Lifelong

Author:Jeff Sessions

“For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”

Energy Born Sacrifice Comfort Travel Victim Vices Traveller

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”

People Giving Has Beens Reality Individual Belief Language Born Records Awareness Humility Communication Concepts Tradition Experience Victim Access Data Beneficiaries Doors Of Perception

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.”

Knows Men Looks Earth Certain Born Justice Compassion Divine Victim Senses Punishment Alas Resemblance Chastisement Crime And Punishment Divine Justice

Author:Victor Hugo

“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.”

Has Beens Individual Language Born Tradition Victim Beneficiaries Doors Of Perception

Book:The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

“These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Parent Born Religious Christianity Knowing Childhood Opposites Victim Islam Afghanistan Indoctrination Arkansas

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“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”

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Book:The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...

Source: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...

“I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.”

Ifs Knows Wells Long Enough Black Born Talking Millions Democracy Republican Victim Democrat South Borders What If Jail Americanism

Author:Malcolm X