"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."
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"The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains."
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"Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight."
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"In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice of which they are the perpetrators and the victims."
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"I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people."
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"Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims."
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"I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully."
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"i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking"
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"A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey."
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"Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him."
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"If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim."
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"I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories."
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"Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike."
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"It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject."
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"I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here."
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"Each man was his own executioner and his own victim."
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"It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims"
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"The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims."
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"As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim."
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"If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving."
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