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“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.”

Needs Long Past Law Worst Demand Creatures Victim Protection Sexist Bodyguard

Author:Warren Farrell

“Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.”

Thinking Made Ends Film Moral Century Directors Demand Treats Victim Excellence Mediums Propaganda 20th Century Spectators Manipulative

Author:Michael Haneke

“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.”

Interest Party Crime Demand Unique Forgiveness Direct Murder Victim Grants Behalf Atonement Abolish Murder Victims

Author:W. H. Auden

“New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.”

Fighting Difficult Technology Sea Produce Demand Deserve Victim Careful Dry Convince Pirate Drains New Technology Abolition Copyright Weakening Navigation Sophistry

Author:Mark Helprin

“There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.”

Ability Struggle Rights Talent Media Demand Equal Victim Treatment Equal Rights Parasites Preferential Treatment

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?”

Knows Littles Said States Age Night Sleep United Millions Darkness United States Streets Citizens Demand Victim Embrace Agents Inevitable Torture March Outrage Resignation Perpetrators

Author:Ariel Dorfman

“History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".”

People Ifs Has Beens Fall Wish Perfect Teach Higher Civilization Demand Limits Standards Constitution Victim Neurosis Higher Standards

Book:Sexuality and The Psychology of Love

Source: Sexuality and The Psychology of Love

“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.”

Action Pain Remember Desire Evil Asks Speak Sides Share Demand Universal Victim Burden Contrary Appeals Engagement Tempting Perpetrators Bystanders Speak No Evil

Book:Trauma and recovery

Source: Trauma and recovery

“Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.”

“Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.”

Pain Form Suffering Compassion Imagine Demand Empathy Capacity Victim Torture Crave Numbness

Author:Ariel Dorfman

“We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.”

Ifs World Littles Balance Demand Victim Comprehensive Robbery Robbing

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou