“I think that some people from other regions expect us to be like that so I think they overcompensate for that sometimes and they're victims to their own insecurity.” PeopleThinkingSometimesVictimInsecurityRegions Author:Immortal Technique
“Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHas BeensBigsBehindsProudComputerVictimBrilliantCampaignsMarchBullyingCommentNastyHurtfulCyberCyber Bullying Author:Katherine Jenkins
“Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.” PeopleLongPoliticalIndividualLibertyGroupsVictimPropagandaWeedPollutionGangstersPoisonousIndividual LibertySproutsMisrepresentation Author:David O. McKay
“When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start to become more humble, and those who are rising up will leave behind their need to be victims, their need to be angry or depressed....This is the spirituality of life, that helps people to rise up and take their place. It is not a spirituality of death. Jesus wants those who have been crushed to rise up and those who have power to discover that there is another road, a road of sharing and compassion.” PeopleWantNeedsHas BeensHelpingSpiritualityJesusPoorBehindsCompassionWeakVictimAngryHumbleRichesRisingCrushedRising Up Author:Jean Vanier
“Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.” PeopleValuesChoicesPrinciplesConditionsResponsibleVictimBlameMoodAgentsInitiativeRecognizingProactiveFreedom To ChoosePrinciples And Values Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“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.” PeopleWayIdeasHateCoursesObjectsI HateVictimBlameNativeScholarOppressedSectionsColonizationEtcetera Author:Joseph Boyden
“[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.” PeopleVictimComicPirateCaricatures Author:Ray Stevenson
“Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.” PeopleWayWantStoriesRememberCertainHappenedLetting GoVictimJewTraumaNarrativeNot SureHoliday Author:Jill Soloway
“People like Tywin Lannister are very much victims of that system, and of that environment: 'This is my place, don't threaten it'. I don't know how relevant that is to today. Politics is the most corrupt profession on earth, no matter where you are.” PeopleKnowsMatterTodayEarthKnow HowEnvironmentVictimProfessionWhere You AreRelevantLannisters Author:Charles Dance
“I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.” PeopleYearsHomeJobsDiesLostFeltVictimPartnersLost Everything Author:Isha Judd
“I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.” PeopleMediaVictimFeds Author:Sarah Paulson
“Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.” PeopleGivingLongReasonGiving UpLong TimeVictimSpendingReputationDelayJust Give Up Author:Kevin Shields
“I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentGuyActorsSpeakActingRiskVictimAll KindsHatsNot AfraidBad GuysGood GuyAbusers Author:Kevin Bacon
“The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.” PeopleWorldTodayPolicyWeakVictimBillionsSobbing Author:Tariq Ali
“Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.” PeopleIfsDoeIdeasJoyChurchAcceptingVictimHarmInnocentHomosexualBizarreInnocent Victims Author:Andrew Solomon
“It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.” PeopleDoneMomentsHappensRomanceNextDecidedVictimBrokeUpsetChemicalsSpursBroke UpSpur Of The Moment Author:Mark Hoppus
“I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.” PeopleStillsNationsHatredDiedVictimConvincedAuschwitz Author:Elie Wiesel
“White people deserve to be hit, deserve to be the victims of crime and acts of terror because they have for so long been the unfair, unjust, immoral majority throughout most of the nations that are imbued with Western civilization. If you think that’s an exaggeration, it isn’t. That is exactly how the Democrat Party of today and the American left looks at things.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLongTodayLeftNationsWhitePartyCrimeCivilizationDeserveVictimMajorityDemocratWesternTerrorUnfairUnjustImmoralExaggerationWestern CivilizationActs Of Terror Author:Rush Limbaugh
“At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.” PeopleKnowsWritingMeanPersonsI CanSometimesShowsAgeYoungSocialKnow HowAirMediaVictimSocial MediaHandleDestructiveBullyingUglinessJunkTweetHighlightsMeanness Author:Gretchen Carlson
“There are some people who do not want this thing to continue to work, and that's what they're doing is all about. They don't want to unify. They don't want this thing to work. That's the whole point of going forth with grievance after grievance after grievance and victim after victim after victim, because this inherent system... There is an all-out assault on the unity of this country. There are people whose express purpose is to rip it apart.” PeopleWantCountryWholePurposeVictimUnityInherentAssaultRipGrievance Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I want to just say something very, very personal. As you know, Louisiana has undergone a lot of flooding over the last couple of weeks August 2016. And I just want to thank the American people for their generosity and supporting so many victims of that terrible flooding.” PeopleKnowsWantLastsWeekCoupleTerribleVictimGenerosityAugustLouisianaFlooding Author:Donna Brazile
“[The kidnapping] happened 14 years ago, and I didn't talk about it for ten years because I was too embarrassed. I was too scared. I thought, People are gonna judge me, they're gonna pity me, and I don't want that. Because I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor.” PeopleWantYearsHappenedJudgingTenYears AgoVictimScaredPitySurvivorEmbarrassedKidnappingJudge Me Author:Frida Farrell
“I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse.” PeopleAbuseVictimJail Author:Rudy Giuliani
“That was a sarcastic remark pointing out that Bill Clinton has, quite a past, and Hillary Clinton has done quite a job on attacking the people who were victims of Bill Clinton.” PeopleDoneJobsPastVictimBillsClintonSarcasticPointingRemarksAttacking Author:Rudy Giuliani
“We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.” PeopleFeelsTryingHomeDiesHouseStreetsDyingAnd LoveVictimAidsWormsPeace And LoveDelhi Author:Mother Teresa
“The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.” PeopleFirstsHelpingAmericaNumbersMiddleStudentsOffersFirst TimeVictimUniversityProtectionUsualElitesImperialismMiddle America Author:Noam Chomsky
“The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.” PeopleMenYearsHas BeensHandsAmericaTurnsBlackWhiteFourViolenceHundredVictimFollowingIgnorantBlack PeopleCheeksPreacherWhite ManBrutesGodlikeTurn The Other Cheek Author:Malcolm X
“Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading ? By barbecuing heads ? By eating the hearts of your victim ? Is that opposition ? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September ? Opposition ? Even if they're not Americans, I know this, but some of them I think have nationality - I think one of them has American nationality. Do you call him opposition or terrorist ?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHeartTwoCountryGovernmentEatingVictimTerroristOppositionLos AngelesRebelTowersSeptemberNationalityOpposingTwo Towers Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my party were in prison, and at the end of 1970, November 5, 1970, to be exact, he had said to Mujib, "Should I arrest Bhutto or not?" Look, the only reason why he reversed his schedule was that in West Pakistan he couldn't control the situation as in East Pakistan. Besides Mujib has never been intelligent - he let himself be backed into a corner.” PeopleKnowsShouldFirstsLooksHas BeensSaidEndsReasonPartySituationIntelligentVictimPrisonWestCornersEastReason WhyDo You KnowShould ISchedulesPakistanNovemberBhutto Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensDoneEnoughMightProcessCrimeConsequenceVictimRemainsImpactCriminalsAffectedMight Have BeenCivil SocietyCharterPositive Impact Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Life has to keep going, so you can either be a victim the rest of your life and let it drag you down into drugs and alcohol and depression or you can turn it into something good, fun even, you know, and I tell young people who are going through depression that this might be the most important time of your life. This might be what makes you a great artist later on.” PeopleKnowsImportantMightYoungArtistTurnsFunDrugVictimAlcoholKeep GoingDragGreat ArtRest Of Your LifeGreat ArtistDrugs And AlcoholGood FunTime Of Your Life Author:Jeff Ross
“There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.” PeopleIfsMenHandsRunningCertainPresidentNaturalLeaderMillionsDangerousHe ManHabitDiedVictimPlanesGenocideCrashAbyssArrestedRwandaPlane CrashesNatural Death Author:Paul Kagame
“There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.” PeopleThinkingWantEnoughEyePainLawGrowsLimitsCreatingOriginalsVictimTiredPatternsHealFatigueRetaliationPerpetuatingEye For An Eye Author:Shane Claiborne
“It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.” PeopleWayDonePainFormEnergyCan DoJusticeHealingCreativeCostResourcesVictimAlternativesPenaltiesDeath PenaltyChanneling Author:Shane Claiborne
“I'm telling you, [ real people] are not mad at Al-Qaeda. They are not mad at ISIS. They are not mad at [Omar] Mateen. Mateen is a victim just like they are. They are a victim of this country. These angry, irrational Looney Tunes on social media - be it people who are commenting or originally posting - these people think they're victims of this country, too. They have been taught that!” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountrySocialMediaTaughtVictimAngryMadSocial MediaTunesAlsIrrationalIsisAl QaedaOmarLooney Tunes Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.” PeoplePartyClassPovertyMiddleVictimDemocratMiddle ClassFreezeResentful Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The people that choose to face life, the people that choose to embrace it, the people that choose to just soak it up, the people that choose to dive right in and test their limits and find out what they're capable of and how good they can be and if that's really what they want to do, victims are gonna hate them because they are showing what anybody could do if they just had an attitude adjustment.” PeopleIfsWantFacesHateAttitudeLimitsCapableTestsVictimEmbraceAdjustmentAttitude Adjustment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like the theater, I like the dance. And it's manageable. The food's good. I know a lot of interesting people here. I lived in Boston for 50 years or more. Wherever I am, I'm usually holed up most of the time in the editing room, and so, when I leave the editing room, even if I just take a walk, it's gorgeous. And I walk everywhere. I'm a victim of the seduction of Paris.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsBeautifulWalksInterestingRoomsCitiesTheaterVictimObviousParisMuseumsEditingSeductionBostonGorgeousManageableObvious ThingsBeautiful City Author:Frederick Wiseman
“I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.” PeopleThinkingCrimeVictimCleaningMexican Author:Pope Francis
“When killings of black by policeman happen, there's the victim, there's the family, there are the police, there are the politicians, and there is the community. Everybody is affected. Everybody has a point of view. We really wanted to dig into that and get to know all these different people that are changed by it.” PeopleKnowsDifferentHappensWantedBlackCommunityViewsChangedPoliticianPoliceVictimKillingPoint Of ViewAffectedDifferent PeoplesPolicemen Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.” PeopleLongMadeTwoHappensPainDyingReadyTasteVictimForgivingTorture Author:Saadi Yacef
“We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America or Britain, or whether it's something happening out there in one of the countries of conflict. I mean Sri Lanka, the human rights abuse there is appalling.” PeopleHumansMeanCountryAmericaGirlBlackCommunityRightsConflictHappeningsAbuseVictimHuman RightsBritainSri LankaBlack GirlRural Communities Author:Roma Tearne
“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
“The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the character work wasn't there. So, basically every book I work on starts with me thinking not just about the bad thing that's going to happen, but how that bad thing is going to ripple through the community, the family of the victim, and the lives of the investigators. I am keenly aware when I'm working that the crimes I am writing about have happened to real people. I take that very seriously.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookRealCharacterCareCommunityCrimeVictimRipple Author:Karin Slaughter
“We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle a feather. If you're quiet and you're watching it, you're just as much at fault as the person there. You're watching a victim be berated and you're standing by, knowing that feeling in your gut that it's wrong. Now you have a tool in order to change that.” PeopleFeelingsQuietVictimUncomfortableGutsFeathersSmall Things Author:Don Iveson
“A lot of people do want to be victims. It's easy. It's an excuse for not doing anything and an excuse for failing. Being a victim means somebody else is responsible for everything going wrong in your life. So Democrats love plugging as many people as they can into victim status.” PeopleMeanEasyFailingResponsibleVictimDemocratExcuse Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Some people think that the Syrian people are from another planet. On the contrary, I think that we all live inside the same boat, on the same planet. And the Syrian war affects everybody now, the whole world. There are Syrian refugees everywhere now. But it looks like nobody cares about civilians in Syria. They are suffering. There are hundreds of victims - innocent women, children, and old men who are hurt or killed every day - and no one cares about them.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldChildrenWarCareSufferingHurtVictimInnocentBoatOld ManSyriaRefugeeNobody CaresNo One Cares Author:Osama Alomar
“Climate change is not about climate change. It's about the people in it getting rich off of an ever-expanding, growing, controlling government. It's all about expanding the government and government control over people. It's about creating victims. When you successfully turn somebody into a victim, you have automatically made them a dependent on you. You are essentially telling them they have lost the power necessary to solve their own problems. And you create within them a mentality that they can't overcome their own problem because they're victims.” PeopleProblemRichOvercomingVictimClimate ChangeMentalityGet Rich Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's the first thing liberals notice about people is what group are you in! "What group do I put you in? Are you a woman? Are you lesbian? Are you straight? Are you Native American? Are you African-American? Are you a mix? What are you?" That's how they see people, because that then identifies the victim status they hold. Victims of what? Victims of America! All these people are victims of America, "the white, patriarchal majority." They're all victims of America, as the left sees them.” PeopleVictimNativeNative American Author:Rush Limbaugh