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“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.”

Want Feels Persons Life Is Wish Emotion Objects Prejudice Victim Release Unhappiness Irrelevant Subjective Dissatisfaction

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.”

Sex Fantasy Cutting Feminism Objects Female Victim Males Contemporary Dominant Oppressors Paranoid Spun

Author:Camille Paglia

“Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.”

Objects Victim Valuable Thieves Distinguished

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.”

Men Needs Children Reason Philosophy Certain Knowledge Objects Perception Victim Philosopher Foolish Absurd All Time Acquire Falsehood Succession Partiality

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.”

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Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.”

Wells Shows Earth Mother Culture Religious Objects Destruction Machines Victim Possession Contemporary Ideology Toys Representation Mother Earth Contamination

Author:Jane Caputi

“There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.”

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Author:Joseph Boyden

“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.”

Humans Matter Problem Animal Magic Objects Tvs Degrees Victim Shoes Tricks Commodity Sandwiches Cellphone Inanimate Objects Magic Tricks

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.”

People Thinking Way Feels Persons America Race Objects Connections Victim Sorry Convinced Despite Sorry For Him

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.”

World May Feelings Seems Strong Compassion Objects Victim Our Love Here And There Strong Feeling

Book:The Poems of Dr. Zhivago

Source: The Poems of Dr. Zhivago

“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.”

Humans Matter Problem Animal Objects Tvs Degrees Victim Shoes Phones Cells Commodity Sandwiches Cell Phone Inanimate Objects

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.”

“One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.”

“Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.”

Men Want Giving Feels Mind Doe Pain Hate Individual Class Objects Concerned Hatred Anger Aim Victim Angry Harm Thieves Angry Man Informers

Book:The Works of Aristotle

Source: The Works of Aristotle