Quotes with victims

  • Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
  • None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
  • The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption - pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

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  • Thomas Gray Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • George L. Jackson Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • Rabindranath Tagore No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • John Jay Chapman Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Assata Shakur All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 183
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Simone Weil Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Blake Farenthold Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Albert Speer I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre I hate victims who respect their executioners.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Michael Crichton I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]
    Michael Crichton
    American author of science fiction books and film screenplays (1942 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Cockburn I want to raise every voice
    At least I got to try
    Every time I think about it
    Water rises to my eyes
    Situation desperate
    Echoes of the victims cry
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    Some son of a bitch would die
    Stealing Fire (1984) If I Had a Rocket Launcher, Track 8
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Ann Rule I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Bill Nelson If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
    Interview Oprah november 2000
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Aldous Huxley It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
    As quoted in The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is (2007)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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