Victims Quotes

• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

  

  Sophocles
  • War
  • Loves
  • Victims

• In later years I encountered a similar phenomenon in victims of child abuse: Most of them suffer from agonizing shame about the actions they took to survive and maintain a connection with the person who abused them. This was particularly true if the abuser was someone close to the child, someone the child depended on, as is so often the case. The result can be confusion about whether one was a victim or a willing participant, which in turn leads to bewilderment about the difference between love and terror; pain and pleasure. We will return to this dilemma throughout this book.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Suffer

• In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Killed
  • Collapse
  • Discussed

• Nut up and flipped in, than slipped the clip in, mistakin' the bloody victims.

  

  Bryon Anthony McCane II Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • Victims
  • Clip

• Just like we do for fire victims every day of the year, we want to meet those needs.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Day
  • Fire
  • Year

• It appears at this time, although the investigation is continuing, that he was struck by that white Town Car, lost control and plowed into the clinic. It appears that he's a victim of a hit-and-run and we don't arrest victims.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Stuck
  • Investigation
  • Appears

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Hypocrisy
  • Ethical

• Canada strongly condemns this terrorist act, and we are deeply troubled by such incidents. On behalf of all Canadians, we extend our deepest sympathies to the victims and their families.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Canada
  • Terrorist
  • Incidents

• We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Enemy
  • Humans
  • Weak

• The data shows that this is most likely a hundreds-of-thousands to millions of victims issue.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Issue
  • Victims
  • Millions

• In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosophy
  • Victims
  • Thinkers

• The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

  

  Tommy Makem The Clancy Brothers
  • Resources
  • Injustice
  • Fight back

• For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Victims
  • Civilized
  • Human Sacrifices

• The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that “Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.” A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Humanity
  • Extinction
  • Anthropologist

• Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

  

  Plato
  • Injustice
  • Victims
  • Committing

• The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Class
  • Victims
  • Wage

• These activities are causing significant emotional distress to the victims. In some, they are resulting in increasing reports of suicide. In many cases, it contributes to depression, school avoidance and myriad other consequences related to emotional abuse.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Emotional
  • Victims
  • Distress

• There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

  

  Evelyn Anthony
  • Human
  • Careers
  • Whispers

• We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • People
  • Earth
  • Security

• They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Victims
  • No Doubt
  • Humiliated

• Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Death
  • Society
  • Punishment

• Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Murderers

• It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Soldier
  • United States
  • Victims

• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Duty
  • Account
  • Self-Discipline

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