Best victim & interest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there's competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.”

Humans Problem Interest Community Forget Rights Special Expression Victim Competition Human Rights Unnecessary Special Interests

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.”

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.”

“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

“The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.”

People Real Seems Faces Easy Bits Interest Memories Victim Psychologist Demonstrating Vested Interests Spiteful

Author:Richard Dawkins

“It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.”

Long Age Interest Victim Dear Indulgence Jury Robbery Infanticide

Author:Edmond Francois Valentin About

“But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.”

Interest Powerful Groups Empathy Victim Interest Groups

Author:Ann Coulter

“Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central bank governors are linked to financial communities in their countries, so they push policies that reflect the viewpoints and interests of the financial community and barely hear the voices of those who are the first victims of dictated policies.”

Firsts Country Voice Interest Community Policy Labor Victim Tables Unions Financial Finance Ministers Seats Governors Linked Viewpoints Central Banks Labor Union

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about the suffering and trauma that so many in Mexico and Central America endure, and that is all around us whether we notice it or not.”

Writing Suffering Interest Police Victim Endure Trauma Survivor

Author:Francisco Goldman

“Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.”

World Trying War Facts Film Spirit Interest Cities Taken Humility Drama Conscious Essence Tragedy Victim Determined Screens Tales Dramatic Endeavor Rome Usual Cliche Emerging

Author:Roberto Rossellini

“... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.”

Long Interest Poor Source Conscience Sick Prejudice Victim Behalf Pro Life Marginalized

Author:Barack Obama

“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.”

People Has Beens Self Political Social Interest Religious Behinds Moral Class Promise Victim Foolish Deception Phrases Declaration Self Deception

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“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.”

Life Self Today Force Social Term Interest Half Century Cost Judgment Universal Victim Defense Justify Self Defense Aggressors Deadly Force

Author:Don Kates

“I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.”

Mean Speak Interest Animal Position Higher Authority Abuse Victim Injustice Cruelty Vulnerable Powerless Behalf Representing Speaks Out Overlooked

Author:Desmond Tutu

“...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.”

“I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.”

People Thinking Government Interest Crime Victim Get Away Serbia

Author:Michael Kirby

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