“My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.” ProblemSeemsAmericaResultsMy FamilyDiedResponsibleVictimIraqDebateNo Problem Author:Scott Ritter
“Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.” SufferingLostJusticeCompassionRightsResponsibleVictimWitnessRestoring Author:Liv Ullmann
“You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.” ThinkingResponsibilityWillingResponsibleVictimLimitationInfancy Author:Margery Wilson
“Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their childrenof either gender to feel free and whole. But weak women, women who feel and act like victims of something or other, may make their children feel responsible for taking care of them, and they can carry their children down with them.” PeopleFeelsMayChildrenWholeCareMotherStrongWeakResponsibleVictimGenderPursueEmpoweringMen WomenStrong PeopleWeak Women Author:Frank Pittman
“I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.” WantArtistParentHonorResponsibleVictimBlameMiserySeekingVulnerableProseListenersBeing ResponsibleExplicitExhibitionist Author:Sufjan Stevens
“Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.” PeopleMeanHas BeensCultureAnswersForgetResponsibleVictimForget You Author:Jacque Fresco
“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
“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
“Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelievePoorVisionTakenLosingResponsibleVictimBoredChanging The WorldOutsidersHorrific Author:Garry Kasparov
“And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.” MindKindHoursResponsibleVictimPaceTransformedExecutionUp And DownTaxiExecutionersExorcism Author:Liam Neeson
“No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.” MenChildrenHas BeensUseDoubtWeaponsResponsibleVictimInnocentNo DoubtChemicalsRegimesSyriaMen WomenChemical WeaponsInnocent Man Author:Joe Biden
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.” WorldWayMadeHappensFatherResponsibilityHusbandOvercomingResponsibleVictimTraumaOver YouMy HusbandAnything Can HappenVictimizationGetting Over YouGet Over YourselfAbusive FatherBad Husband Author:Camille Paglia
“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.” ThinkingMeanLongProblemSufferingCausesSituationRolesForeverResponsibleVictimParadiseHopelessKatie Author:Byron Katie
“I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.” ThinkingWorldGivingI CanReasonTodayPastFearHurtJudgingKeysLetting GoGiving UpResponsibleVictimDeterminedUpsetInstantOver ItOnly TimeTouch MeKey To HappinessI Am DeterminedPast Is Over Author:Hugh Prather