Victims Quotes

“[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews?”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.”
― D.J. Weaver

“A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

[...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims.

[...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.”
― Mark L. Shurtleff

“The difference between victims and survivors is whether you’re found in time. We cannot swim while the other sinks. I imagine the lonely and wild out there bobbing on the waves. Waiting to be washed ashore or dragged out by the tide. Names unknown, dreams forgotten.”
― Ann Clare LeZotte, Set Me Free

“Why don't victims report? Because most of the time, the only thing reporting accomplishes is heightening the trauma to almost unbearable levels. It invites an audience to view your sexual assault. It's choosing to have no voice in the process after having it stolen from you. That's why victims don't report.”
― Rachael Denhollander, What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics

“Odakle dolazi dojam da je Crkva lakše izlazila na kraj s krivcima-počiniteljima negoli s nedužnim žrtvama? Nije li naša kristologija toliko pretjerano determinirana soteriološki da više niti ne dopušta teodicejsko pitanje (na koje se niti može dati odgovor niti ga se može zaboraviti)?”
― Johann Baptist Metz, Memoria passionis: Ein provozierendes Gedächtnis in pluralistischer Gesellschaft

“Карский и Пилецкий произвели на меня впечатление именно как личности, делавшие то, чего не делает большинство других людей. Они видели больше, чем страдания их собственного коллектива. С учетом сегодняшней тенденции идентифицировать себя с той или иной группой жертв, их поведение особенно интересно в моральном плане. Карский и Пилецкий видели страдания других. Для них не стоял вопрос о "конкуренции" жертв, который сегодня, пожалуй, решается еще труднее, чем тогда [160].”
― Timothy Snyder, Украинская история, российская политика, европейское будущее

“There is only one thing worse than a tyrant and that is a tyrant's victim.”
― Henry James

“She melted the butter in the pan. She warmed the egg yolks by immersing them in a bowl of hot water and mixing them with vinegar, then pouring in the shining golden butter little by little. She moved the whisk ceaselessly, making the contents of the bowl whirl round and round. Having observed Chizu's troubles up close, and learned how to avoid them, she succeeded in producing the fine egg-colored foam relatively quickly. Her whole hand, from the wrist down, was dancing on a waltz.
The tigers in the book, whose desires had kept them spinning round and round until they transformed into butter, had ended up in the stomachs of Little Babaji's family. Even after their deaths, Kajii's victims continued to be exposed to and consumed by the curious gaze of the general public.
Rika had stopped believing that any blame lay with the victims themselves. Being sucked into the vortex of Kajii's ominous power, like she herself had been, was something that could happen to anybody. Thinking this, she went on single-mindedly whisking the butter.
Through her adventures with the quatre-quarts on Valentine's Day, she'd learned that waiting on the far side of all of this seemingly endless whisking was not stasis or evaporation, but emulsification. If she couldn't tear her eyes away from Kajii, if she couldn't stop herself from spinning round and round, then maybe all that was left to do was to grip on to Kajii with all her might, so as to ensure she wasn't shaken off.
'Done!' Rika said to herself and lifted up the whisk. The sauce of warm, bright yellow that came dripping off the whisk was smooth as cashmere.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“This is the nature of war: it turns us into enemies. People who have never met kill each other out of fear. War creates so much suffering—children become orphans, entire cities and villages are destroyed. All who suffer in such conflicts are victims.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life

“I have a lot of sympathy for disabled war veterans, as they are victims of a corrupt government.”
― Steven Magee

“Don't be deceived .People know very well what they are doing. They only act as victims when their intensions and plan had failed.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“In those rare cases where trust ends in betrayal, those victimized by default to truth, deserve our sympathy, not censure.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking To Strangers: What We Don't Know About Strangers

“Victims are often, automatically, accused of lying. But when a perpetrator is exposed for lying, the stigma doesn't stick. Why is that we're wary of vctims making false accusations, but rarely consider how many men have blatanly lied about, downplayed, or manipulated others to cover their own actions?”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Victims are often, automatically, accused of lying. But when a perpetrator is exposed for lying, the stigma doesn't stick. Why is that we're wary of victims making false accusations, but rarely consider how many men have blatantly lied about, downplayed, or manipulated others to cover their own actions?”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Нікому в Боснії не вигідні швидкі ексгумації: «Не дай Боже, — каже Ева. — Закінчилися б високі заробітки, кар’єри, поїздки на міжнародні конференції. Треба копати повільно. Має вистачити на довгі роки, до пенсії.”
― Войцех Тохман, Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia

“There were numerous fatalities, burn and smoke inhalation victims in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.”
― Steven Magee

“the market is a machine, and these are just the noises that the gears make when they turn”
― Jason Pargin, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

“the market is a machine, and these are just the noises that the gears make when they turn (...) the market is a machine, if any man is so foolish as to stop the works from turning, he should not be surprised when he gets ground up in its gears”
― Jason Pargin, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

“It was interesting to watch the Lahaina disaster victims getting an education on how their government really is!”
― Steven Magee

“Women are infantilized, demeaned, deprived of dignity, denied their rights, and all in the name of the rule of law. The elite approach followed within the courtrooms often asserts supremacy while excluding the poor, women, children, Dalits, tribals, and other subaltern groups. In itself, a court cannot change the law, yet, the court has the power to interpret and implement the given law in a sensitive manner while upholding the constitutional spirit and values, and that is what a litigant
expects and society hopes for. However, this is not happening.”
― Shalu Nigam

“I think everyone is a victim. If you are not a victim of this, you are a victim of that. For example, when you have anger and despair in you, you are a victim of your anger and despair, and you suffer very deeply. Building a wall or dropping a bomb can make you suffer, that is true, but having anger and despair makes you suffer also—maybe more. We may be the victim of others, and we may be the victims of ourselves.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other

“In November and December 2023, the popular Maui Kaanapali beach was filled with local wildfire victims that were ‘fishing for housing’.”
― Steven Magee

“That's one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he'll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he'll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman -- if he ever knew, he has forgotten. 'Move on!' you tell us. 'Move on! Forget what we've done to you. Tomorrow's another day!' But it isn't, Mr. Brue. Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That's the point I was making to you. And the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”
― John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

“These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being separated from their children in the US; border walls are being built and fortified at an unprecedented rate across the globe (there are currently seventy-four in existence). But this much is clear: when walls are built, people will find a way over or under them; when families are separated, they do everything in their power to be reunited; and when women are victims, they find the courage to speak up, to band together, to survive.”
― Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

“In other part of the world. Scientist create problems and then provide solutions for the problems they created in order to make profit.. In Africa criminals create problems and also they provide solutions for the problems they created in order to make profit. Most of our problems are made by the people who say they are here to save us.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The tension in the room is palpable, but so is the support. I could cry, I'm so grateful for them.
I could cry for all the victims who don't have people like them.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Images of suffering are humanizing to all but the hardened fanatic. Watch men die, struggling for dignity, and you cannot deny their humanity. If this is the politics of victimization, then all our impulses of empathy with strangers are the politics of victimization. We learn to care about those who are not like us not when we learn they want the same things we do, but when we learn that they feel pain in the same way we do.”
― Adam Gopnik, At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

“Victims of partial mindedness suffer a lot but learn a lot”
― Davidson Prabu

“When I began writing fact-detective stories, I promised myself that I would always remember I was writing about the loss of human beings, that I was to never forget that. I hoped that the work I did might somehow save other victims, might warn them of the danger. I never wanted to become tough, to seek out the sensational and the gory, and I never have. I have joined the Committee of Friends and Families of Missing Persons and Victims of Violent Crimes, at the invitation of the group. I have met many parents of victims, cried with them, and yet I have somehow felt guilty - because I make my living from other people's tragedies. When I told the Committee how I felt, they put their arms around me and said, "No. Keep on writing. Let the public know how it is for us. Let them know how we hurt, and how we try to save other parents' children by working for new legislation that requires mandatory sentencing and the death penalty for killers."

They are far stronger than I could ever be.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story