George Jackson Quotes

Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail-that's me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity.

George Jackson

• Victim
• Examination
• Immunity

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• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

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

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Important
  • Most
  • Victim

• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Numbers
  • Victim
  • Statistics

• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Consideration
  • Final

• In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Women
  • Done
  • Strong

• We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Victim
  • Hubris

• You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Architecture

• Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Attitude
  • inspirational
  • Victim

• I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Words

• We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Rest

• You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lost
  • Learning
  • Finals

• But silence is where victims dwell.

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • Silence
  • Victim
  • Silence Is

• If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Country
  • Victim
  • Greater

• Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

  

  James Cook
  • Life
  • Victim
  • Trapped

• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Medicine
  • Victim
  • Discovered

• We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Secret
  • Spring
  • Examination

• People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Victim
  • Dispise

• The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
  • Reality

• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • World
  • She
  • Feel

• 'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Black
  • Picture

• Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail-that's me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity.

  

  George Jackson
  • Victim
  • Examination
  • Immunity