Quotes with victims

Quotes 21 till 40 of 52.

  • Betty Friedan Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Betty Friedan Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Walter Bagehot Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Carlos Santana Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Elie Wiesel 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.
    Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
    A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Elton Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • John Paul II The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Lipton The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Conrad The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Bill Flores Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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