Morgan Freeman Quotes

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

Morgan Freeman

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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

• 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

• It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • Long
  • Family

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

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Words

• But silence is where victims dwell.

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • Silence
  • Victim
  • Silence Is

• The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Way
  • Victim
  • Deceit

• 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

• On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

  

  George Gilder
  • Wealth
  • Creating
  • Victim

• 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 broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Chance
  • Nation
  • Victim

• No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Society
  • Victim
  • Creature

• What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Liberty
  • Victim
  • Transcendent

• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Society

• Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

  

  Erik Adigard

• After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said - The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive.

  

  Carole Maso
  • Words
  • Sex
  • Said

• As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Victim