"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another"
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"I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all."
"It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave."
"I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me."
"His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms."
"The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself."
"My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims."
"And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames."
"To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims."
"People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim."
"War loves to seek its victims in the young."
"Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions."
"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."
"You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence."
"Victims always feel alone and helpless."
"In every moment you have the choice to be a victim or a creator."
"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."
"Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim."
"Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource."