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All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.
Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.
People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.
We've all been victims. We've all been perpetrators. And, so there is a group that is still experiencing that.
We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.
You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
It takes courage to come forward, and I don't want any victim of sexual harassment to think twice about doing so.
I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride.
Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit
We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.
The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
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'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.
Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.
We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.
When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
If you're a victim, you're not happy. You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's even difficult to be content.
In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.
Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!
Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities.
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.
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.
I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.