Victim Quotes

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.