Quotes with victim

  • Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
  • The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.
  • Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
  • He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
  • The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
  • The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
  • Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
  • If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
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  • Bertrand Russell Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Sun Tzu The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Maya Angelou A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Schnetzer All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • T. Boone Pickens Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Alphonse de Lamartine Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • E. B. White Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Malcolm X Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brent Sexton Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Emile Durkheim Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Ayn Rand Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Joel Hawes He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
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  • Ann Rule I always want to give the victim a voice.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Marcel Duchamp I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Malcolm X I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
    The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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