Victim Quotes

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

There is no such thing as a really rich victim.

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.

People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

In every moment you have the choice to be a victim or a creator.

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride.

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.

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

By not coming forward, you make yourself a victim forever.

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.