“When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.” MenUsedSexCrimeMessagesWeaponsVictimAssaultProstitutionSexual AssaultCourtesans Author:Margo St. James
“Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.” ShouldHas BeensLawUsedActorsIndividualLinesJusticeMessagesToolsCrisisVictimBillsCriminalsInnocentPocketsExpensesSchemesLaw EnforcementEnforcementHousingTaxpayersMortgageShadyRevisingLendersHomeownersHousing Crisis Author:Chuck Grassley
“I didn't want to be a victim of my own message [in Trust film]. I didn't want to take advantage of a 14-year-old actor. I didn't want there to be any nudity, or any real overt violence. I think it's more terrifying that there is no violence, in that moment. There's control and there's power, but there's no violence.” ThinkingWantYearsRealMomentsFilmActorsMy OwnViolenceMessagesAdvantageVictimThat MomentNudity Author:David Schwimmer
“Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.” KnowsHas BeensBookDifferentStatesDoneMightChallengesHurtViewsMoralCrimeMessagesVictimPhilosopherRevengeDefinedAnarchyUtopiaDeliveringPerpetrators Author:Errol Morris
“Part of my message is that God never said that we weren't going to have difficulties, but you know what, He said to stay full of joy and I'm going to help you overcome. So I think that is what resonates with people and helps draw so many people. Because it is not a message that you are barely going to make it, you're a victim. We are not victims, we are victors.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSaidHelpingJoyMessagesDrawsOvercomingDifficultyVictim Author:Joel Osteen
“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.” PeopleNeedsStoriesMediaCrimeTelevisionMessagesNewsDestructionVictimDrinkingBarsConsumersStaringMy TimeFrightenedPollutionPassiveAirportsNews Stories Author:John Twelve Hawks
“The Secret's message is to empower people. Its message releases people from feeling like victims and gives them the knowledge to intentionally create their lives the way they want.” PeopleWayWantGivingFeelingsSecretMessagesVictimIntentionReleaseEmpowering Author:Rhonda Byrne
“Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality...Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another...Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.” GivingHas BeensRealityActionPastFormSufferingResultsIdentityAchievementDiversityMessagesVictimAppearanceFocusedDiscriminationArtificialOur PastPreferenceAffirmative ActionAffirmativeParity Author:Shelby Steele
“My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.” ShouldAnimalViolenceMessagesVictimSurvivorMy SisterShelterAssaultDomestic ViolenceSexual AssaultNieceBatteredMy NieceBattered Women Author:Hilda Solis
“The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.” LoveSometimesStatesProblemWould BeCultureLove IsDiseaseMessagesPhilosophicalVictimProfoundSolveContemporaryTomsContagiousParalysisIncessantlyImbecility Author:Quentin Crisp