Victim Quotes

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran

Revenge, Once, Sweet

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
Ted Danson

Feeling, Start, Making

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
T. D. Jakes

Yourself, Give, Understand

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
Liam Neeson

Life, Mind, Someone

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Difference, Mankind, Animal

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
Jalal Talabani

Justice, Cannot, Rights

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
Patty Hearst

Hurt, Feeling, Realize

You can't be a victim and heal.
A. J. Langer

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Strong, Reality, Growing

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
Helena Bonham Carter

Film, Actor, Directors

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.
Elizabeth Edwards

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.
Mary Stuart Masterson

Beautiful, Him, Through

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
Emma Watson

Love, Romantic, Dating

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
William Glasser

Control, Depressed, Happened

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Vivienne Westwood

Trying, Energy, Youth

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Clothes, Wear

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson

History, View, Economics

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
James Hillman

Again, Social, Result

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
William Hague

Home, Give, Speak

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

Beauty, Art, Cannot

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
Ann Coulter

Racism, Around, Known

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
Boris Pasternak

Love, Strong, Deep

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams

Men, Power, Self

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
Daisaku Ikeda

Human, Country, Living

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
Salma Hayek

Woman, Violence, She

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
Peter McWilliams

Life, Person, Happens

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
Nina Bawden

Angry, Survivor

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
Diego Rivera

Hurt, Woman, Wanted

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
Laura Schlessinger

Black, Behavior, White

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Fernando Flores

Trust, Power, Truth

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