Victim Quotes

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

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.

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.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

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

I'm certainly no victim in this. I don't want to come off as a sad sack; I pissed a lot of people off.

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

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

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.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

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.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

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.

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

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.

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.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

I don't want to be a victim.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

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

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

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

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

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.