“There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts - and the traditional persecution of men for their religion... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences.” MenHumansFeelingsIndividualDifferencesCommonGroupsActivityVictimFundamentalsMajorityVariousAppearanceTraditionalSmokeSubstanceDestructiveAggressiveThreatenedHomosexualPersecutionSimilarity Author:Thomas Szasz
“A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.” CommonHonestVictimMisperception Author:Stella Vine
“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.” StatesShowsLawProcessCommonNumbersEffortRightsCitizensEqualIncreaseVictimDenyProtectionDuesHonestlyTendenciesInvasionSavageryLynchingDue ProcessEqual ProtectionDue Process Of Law Author:H. L. Mencken
“There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).” WellsTwoFactsCommonBehindsResponsibilityCasesVictimIndividualityConservativeSeekingGravesEditorsReviewsDaringShelterPeersLowestCountingAnonymityCommon DenominatorStratagemCollateralLowest Common DenominatorWithout A TracePeer Review Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“It occurs to me that there's been a relatively recent tendency in the media to see prostitutes as victims and johns as exploiters. I don't think most prostitutes see themselves as victims or see their clients as exploiters, but that way of seeing prostitutes and johns is pretty common now outside of sex-work circles, and it's more shameful to be the exploiter than the exploited.” ThinkingWaySexCommonSeeingMediaVictimCirclesTendenciesClientsShamefulSex Work Author:Chester Brown
“Common sense! It's nothing more than common sense for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our country, the preservation and growth of our economy. And yet Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush - and everybody in the press corps and practically every other Democrat - hears this and the only reaction they have is, "No compassion! No compassion for the less fortunate! No compassion for the victims of the world!"” WorldCountryCultureGrowthCommonCompassionEconomyVictimDemocratCommon SenseNo Compassion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Immigration, ladies and gentlemen, is not an entitlement. Yet that's how it is treated by the Democrats, by the Drive-By Media. That's how it's considered. It's no different than Medicaid, no different than Medicare, and its purpose is to benefit the victims of the evil United States. That is not what immigration is, but that's what it has become - and as such, common sense about it is totally missed.” DifferentPurposeEvilCommonVictimDemocratImmigrationCommon SenseGentlemanEntitlementMedicareLadies And Gentlemen Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One, they can't read. And two, they witnessed violence or were victims of violence as a child. You would think that if you had seen your mother get beaten when you were 10 years old, you'd never raise your hand to a woman. Not true. The prospect that you will increases dramatically if you witness violence. So it's so much bigger than just about women. It's about our society. It's about our culture. It's about who the hell we are.” ThinkingMenChildrenMotherCultureCommonHellStudyViolenceVictimPrisonWitness Author:Joe Biden
“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.” GivingUsedGirlSexCommonPayGoneVictimSpendingBillionsVideoCardsOperationsRelatedNflFraudVacationTicketsHurricanesChampagneCaribbeanKatrinaHurricane KatrinaDebitDomsDebit CardsSex Change Author:Mark Skousen
“On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.” KnowsHeartSaidDreamFacesRealizingDarkWhiteCommonHalfNeededEmptyVictimCornersExpectedIceOccasionsDeep DownNumbBurnt Out Author:Dean Koontz
“The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.” BeliefCommonRightsVictimMysteriousDesertConspiracyMoron Author:H. L. Mencken
“It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.” PeopleWarCommonVictimSticksAnti WarAntiwar Book:Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
“There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.” PeoplePoliticsFearCommonAtheismVictimStupidityRageCommon SenseOutlinesChalk Author:Dennis Miller
“A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.” CommonTalkingStreetsFineHolyAngelVictimThis DayThievesRosaryFine ThingsHoly Rosary Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.” WorldMindWellsIndividualEasyFreedomCommonDemocracyStudyAwarenessConscienceVictimSakeIndividualityFlightIndividualismAgain And AgainConfusing Author:Joost Meerloo
“The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.” WayRealityCommonVictimFaultsPatternsErasAcquireDelusionRight WayObservingSyndromesPsychosis Author:Spider Robinson
“James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.” ThinkingPlayUseAmericaFallEnergySpeakGoalCommonRolesIssuesLandPolicyDesignOffersTransformationIntelligentVictimInvestmentProfessionEnormousRangeAnalysisContributionHorizonRealisticConventionalCompellingConsumptionProposalTransportationPragmaticBlueprintsCommon GroundTimelyIntelligent DesignCoordinationLand UseEnergy Consumption Author:Barry Bergdoll