Victim Quotes

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Silence

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Nothing, Reality, Others

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Human, Silence, Suffering

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

Men, Strong, Show

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
Marilyn Monroe

Emotional, Human, Conflicts

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney

Jealousy, Makes, Both

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Richard Bach

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand

Evil, Requires, Sanction

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

War, Evil, America

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu

Decision, Quality, Destroy

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden

Successful, Strong, Energy

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
Mitt Romney

Truth, Seems, Obama

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Nothing, Rather

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
Dave Pelzer

Cancer, Mindset, Survivor

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
Tom Hiddleston

Themselves, Actually, Bully

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Silence, Sides, Neutrality

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
Chuck Palahniuk

Simple, Someone, Boring

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White

Act, Fall, Circus

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Hate, Country, Minds

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Salma Hayek

Women, Alone, Woman

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Margaret Atwood

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady Gaga

Between, Difference, Bully

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Society, Place, Unique

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks

Wanted, Next, Minute

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Alice Miller

Strong, Simple, Someone

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
V. S. Naipaul

History, Mean, Whole

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
Kevin Mitnick

Actually, Happens, Side

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Charles Baudelaire

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
Anna Quindlen

Life, May, America

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
Abu Bakr

Humility, Fall, Jihad

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