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“The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.”

Way Believe May War Ends Bigs Might Today Next Literature Strong I Believe Levels Taken Drama Creating Victim Locals Video Destroyed Civil War Our Society Coming Out Nigeria

Author:Chinua Achebe

“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

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”

Way Numbers Military Philosophical Victim Defined Existentialism Fascism Existentialist

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.”

Ifs Way Persons Views Tree Victim Woods Point Of View

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.”

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Author:Shirley MacLaine

“In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.”

Men World Way May Has Beens Play Home Found Games Struggle Type Late Harmony Regard Victim Embrace Dollars Chaos Complicated Statements Confusion Maturity Delighted Referring Conceded

Author:Tom Robbins

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

Men Way Years May Has Beens Book Running Science Race Half Century Twenties Victim Blow Ink Exploding Handicapped Gunpowder Printer Running Race

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Feels Has Beens Matter Choices Know How Havens Victim Lawyer Abortion Illegal Trapped Traps Freedom Of Choice Your Freedom Needs And Wants

Author:John Irving

“I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim.”

Thinking Way Want Needs Source Hatred Victim Plant Bitter Heat Poison Soil Neglect Tissues Like Her Poisonous Drought Rattlesnakes Callousness Oleanders

Author:Janet Fitch

“You know it doesn’t work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)”

Knows Way Giving Body Cutting Paper Give Me Victim Touching Paper Cuts

Book:Dream Chaser

Source: Dream Chaser

“Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy”

Knows Way Firsts Sides Behinds Saws Cold Victim Competition Caught Shoulders Grass Vegetables Rushing Yelling Advancing Tents Zeppelins Puck Horde Marrow

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.”

Thinking Way Firsts Ends Remember Capacity Victim Wounds Liberation Rescue Domination Oppressors

Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“You said you were a victim. That's why...that's why ultimately, you and I aren't matched for each other. In spite of everything that's happened, I've never though of myself that way. Being a victim means you're powerless. That you won't take action. Always...always I've done something to fight for myself...for others. No matter what.”

Way Mean Said Matter Done Action Fighting Happened No Matter What Victim Spite Powerless Matched Rose Hathaway

Author:Richelle Mead

“. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

Way Trying Sides Comfortable Victim Make Sense Staring Survivor Fence Clumsy Awfulness

Author:John Boyne

“The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw”

Way Kind Would Be Lasts Beautiful Saws Letters Victim Greek Twins Harsh Blades Alphabet Minotaur

Author:Rick Riordan

“trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.”

Ifs World Way Done Force Blood Destruction Victim Blame Introducing Trust Me Erase Olaf

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”

Ifs Way Shows Seems Language Moral Violence Relation Victim Debt Justify Better Ways Reframing

Book:Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

Source: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

“Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.”

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Author:Anthony Venn-Brown

“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.”

“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.”

“But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.”

“Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?”

Thinking Way Fear Atheism Circumstances Victim Rage Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Peter Jennings

“We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.”

Men Way Needs Ideas Values Strong Victim Silent Attractive Being Strong Silent Man

Author:Jane Powell

“If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.”

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Author:Laverne Cox

“Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“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.”

People Way Want Giving Feelings Secret Messages Victim Intention Release Empowering

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss.”

Way Guy Victim Drinking Bad Guys Better Ways Education System

Author:Chael Sonnen

“Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and envious, feeling unworthy or ashamed about their circumstances. Have you ever felt or acted this way?”

“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.”

“The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.”

Ifs Way Ideas Next Succeed Victim Surprise Endure Disaster Superiors Invincible

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.”

Way Persons Long Dream Type Discipline Happenings Victim Structure Athlete Your Dreams Dependent Flawed Pursued Participants Administrators

Author:Cecile Reynaud

“There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take; there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening.”

Ifs Way Persons Has Beens Can Do Enemy Victim Seeking Revenge Realization Sunset Frustration Loser Screws Frustrating Anger And Frustration Seeking Revenge

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.”

Source: The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922

“I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.”

“The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind.”

Men Way Mind Whole Moving Stars Existence Worry Growing Tree Movement Waste Bird Rivers Victim Dancing Fallen Relaxation Relaxed Haste No Worries

Author:Rajneesh

“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.”

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Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.”

“Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.”

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.”

Ifs World Way Persons Next Peace Seeing Listening Essence Victim Changing The World Compassionate

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.”

Way Persons Feelings Drug Victim Addiction Alcohol Rescue Numb

Author:David Emerald Womeldorff

“There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.”

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Author:Merle Shain

“If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.”

“The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.”

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Author:Spider Robinson

“When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we’re the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we’re unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.”

Source: Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being

“Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically a victim's position, giving power to people and things outside of ourselves. We are beginning to realize that the power rests in us, that we can choose to create our life the way we want it to be.”

People Way Want Life Giving Happens Life Is Can Do Realizing Attitude Our Lives Position Victim Make The Best Of It

Book:Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.”

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Author:Jim Costa

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