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Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.
Ibn Khaldun
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The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Gustave Le Bon
The majority have never yearned for accuracy. Whoever can furnish them with fantasies is effortlessly their ruler; whoever endeavors to demolish their fantasies is invariably their casualty.
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You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit
Edward Said
'You cannot persist in exploiting another person merely because you yourself have suffered injustice before—there must be a boundary.'
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The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.
Marco Polo
The radical Muslim is the one who decapitates the unbeliever, while the peaceful Muslim steadies the feet of the casualty.
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Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action and other patronizing measures
Tammy Bruce
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
Leonard Cohen
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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.
Brit Hume
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To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
Albert Maltz
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Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.
Osamu Dazai
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
Nicholas D. Kristof
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If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
Diego Rivera
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
Fatou Bensouda
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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.
James A. Baldwin
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No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
Peter Benchley
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.
Scarlett Johansson
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I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.
Neil LaBute
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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.
Joyce Carol Oates
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It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.
Judith Light
21.
We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.
Jeff Cooper
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
Thomas Sowell
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I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
Al Sharpton
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Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
Pierre Bourdieu
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
Carol Tavris
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
Nancy Grace
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We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
Ai Weiwei
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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.
Joseph Conrad
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Kate Millett
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We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.
Shirley MacLaine
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
Kamala Harris
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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
James Connolly
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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.
Simone Weil
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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.
Indira Gandhi
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock
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I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
Nina Bawden
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Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.
Ernest K. Gann
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Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?
Alan Watts
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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.
Indira Gandhi
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Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!
Ernest Renan
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
Leon Trotsky
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in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
Barbara De Angelis
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I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.
Rihanna
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The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result
Emile Durkheim