Edward Said
Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
"You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit"
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Victim
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Brit Hume
Journalist, Commentator
"We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls."
Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are."
James A. Baldwin
Writer
"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."
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"I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim."
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"And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices."
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"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
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"As long as you feel like a victim, you are one."
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"To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God."
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"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."
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"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
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"Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?"
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"I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities."
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"He who slanders the victim aids the executioner."
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"Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen."
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"The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!"
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"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."
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"In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die."
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"All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?"
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"I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim."
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"Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer."
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"Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life."
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"I'd rather be a victor than a victim."
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"Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood."
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