“According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.” HalfMembersPercentMurderVictimCommittedStrangerNeighborGirlfriendStatisticsAcquaintanceCasualFbiFamily MembersBoyfriend And GirlfriendMurder Victims Author:Alafair Burke
“The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now the Southwest and Far West. That's why cities have Spanish names: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, etc. All of this is suppressed in standard American history. But the victims remember. The conquerors typically have one history, the victims a different one - and often a more accurate one.” DifferentRememberNamesCitiesHalfViolenceStandardsVictimWestEtcLos AngelesTexasMexicoAccurateAmerican HistorySan FranciscoSantaConquerorPretextCruzSan DiegoSanta Cruz Author:Noam Chomsky
“When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.” MeanStillsBlackRaceHalfThirdsVictimFolksPopulationInstanceAfrican AmericanExecutionLynchingDeath Row Author:Shane Claiborne
“It's easy to be a victim. Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something.” ThinkingLooksMadeCountryEasyPartyHalfVictimDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanMadeWholeViewsHalfSituationGroupsVictimPoint Of ViewAttractive Author:V. S. Naipaul
“We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.” KnowsMenWorldSaidMovingEvilVoiceSinHalfLordLaughingGenerationsMajorsMen And WomenVictimMiseryFollowingChainsLoudSubtleGood ManRepentanceApologyCunningAdversariesWhisperingThis GenerationFettersHalf TruthRipening Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.” MenWayYearsMayHas BeensBookRunningScienceRaceHalfCenturyTwentiesVictimBlowInkExplodingHandicappedGunpowderPrinterRunning Race Book:The Haunted Bookshop Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.” MindHumansAgeSleepHalfKnownDoubtDiseaseVictimInstrumentsChaosAverageIllAwakeSensationsHuman MindVoidSuggestionsCompulsionAdjustmentUnimaginable Book:The Haunted Bookshop Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“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
“Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.” BodyMotherThreeHalfBabyConscienceVictimAbortionQuartersPro Life Author:Mother Teresa
“Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.” ChildrenAgeHalfFourViolenceFemaleVictimLifetimeHouseholdDomestic Violence Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard
“A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.” LifeSelfTodayForceSocialTermInterestHalfCenturyCostJudgmentUniversalVictimDefenseJustifySelf DefenseAggressorsDeadly Force Author:Don Kates
“They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.” LooksMayPassionChristEmotionHalfMoralOpinionImagineTypeDown AndVictimJewStormHonestlyInnocentPatrioticFrankSheerPublic OpinionEnthusiasticHowlIdealistIndignationEmmaReformersFrenzyChrist LikeMoral Indignation Author:Aleister Crowley