Victims Quotes

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

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.

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.