Best victim & powerful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.”

Way Has Beens Moments Energy Powerful Technology Victim Faster Pushing Contemplating

Author:Donald A. Norman

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.”

“The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.”

World Has Beens Faces Evil Names Voice Powerful Numbers Attention Share Century Mass Victim Monsters Graves Sheer Powerless Faceless

Book:Carrion Comfort

Source: Carrion Comfort

“Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.”

Way War Powerful Worst Effects Crisis Victim Financial Usa Elites Ripple Financial Crisis Ripple Effect

Author:Chris Hayes

“The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.”

Fall Difficult Powerful Position Circumstances Creatures Victim Embrace Myth Assumption Abortion Dependent Life And Death Most Powerful Trusted Passive Prey

Book:Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room

Source: Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room

“From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.”

Children Has Beens Ends Powerful Grief Saws Son Needed Gun Commitment Victim My Son Transformed Mourn

Author:Azim Khamisa

“A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.”

“No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.”

People Matter Powerful Victim

Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

“The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.”

Believe Humans Ideas Earth Challenges Human Beings Powerful Class Truth Is Victim Our Society Survivor Privileged

Author:Wendy McElroy

“You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.”

Should Humans Persons Feelings Desire Powerful Flower Victim Instinct Crush Oppressed Despised Oppressors Persecuted Frailty Flower Life

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.”

“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

“When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.”

Force Powerful Built Victim Faults Excuse

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.”

Turns Powerful Victim Positivity Meant To Be Powerful Women

Author:Judith Light

“Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.”

Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Results Powerful Leader Achievement Victim Excuse

Author:Robin Sharma

“Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.”

Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Opportunity Powerful Achievement Adversity Victim Extremes Achiever

Author:Robin Sharma

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.”

“I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood by is that women are beautiful and sexy. We shouldn't be afraid of that. [But] we need to make sure that we present that beauty and that sexiness in a way that says we are in control of our bodies. We're strong, we're classy, we're beautiful, powerful beings to be reckoned with, not victims.”

Way Needs Kind Body Beautiful Strong Powerful Standards Victim Sexy Strict Sexiness

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.”

Source: Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir

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