"Love makes everybody a victim because it's something you can't control. You can't control how you feel or what you're going through when you're doing it."
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"Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims."
"[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense."
"While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change."
"Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives."
"The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised."
"You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong."
"You can be feminine without being a victim. You can be sexy and use your big-girl voice at the same time."
"It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day."
"Modern feminism cannot survive without victims."
"You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking."
"Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner."
"Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all."
"It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims."
"We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors."
"Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against."
"Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood."
"Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!"
"He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent."
"I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents."