Top 60 Always The Victim Quotes
#1. The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
Spider Robinson
#2. I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
Anne Sexton
#3. If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.
Mark The Evangelist
#5. There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
James T. Rapier
#6. Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
Elie Wiesel
#7. I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy.
Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.
Chinelo Okparanta
#8. What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.
William Faulkner
#9. If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.
Lee L Jampolsky
#10. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
#11. If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.
Desmond Tutu
#12. It is probably true that the commonest real cause of anti-semitism is the action of the international Jew who is often unknown and always secure, but innocent victim of it is the poor Jew.
Henry Ford
#13. No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.
Gavin De Becker
#14. The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation.
Michael Chabon
#15. In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim.
Susan Forward
#19. The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.
Stephen Hawking
#20. Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all, we should beware of mistaking the aversions of timidity and sensibility for critical judgments.
Walter Raleigh
#21. The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.
Angela Carter
#22. Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#23. Child, people always look for guilt outside themselves. A person chooses the role of the victim.
Johanna Verweerd
#24. I've always had this vision that the touring lifestyle is so unsustainable. But I have faith that I can do it, and I don't become a victim of my job or my work. And I can remove my self-worth from what I make and how many people show up.
Thao Nguyen
#25. Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers - ambition and indigestion.
Herman Melville
#26. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
Elie Wiesel
#27. Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.
C. Terry Warner
#28. In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.
Vivien Spitz
#29. So, if you have the emotion of always being the victim, you are always going to attract these people into your life to victimize you.
Tamra Oviatt
#30. Some people get exactly what they always wanted ... and throw it away. This is the cyclical behavior of someone who has built a life on the foundation of a victim mentality.
Steve Maraboli
#31. So when life breaks you pick up the pieces and keep moving. Otherwise, you stay broken. And instead of being a survivor, you're always a victim.
Elizabeth Hunter
#32. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Stephen Richards
#33. 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
#34. There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim. He
Pico Iyer
#35. I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure
even when the velvety victim is locked up in one's dungeon
that some rival devil or influential god may still not abolish one's prepared triumph.
Vladimir Nabokov
#36. Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.
Curtis Jackson
#37. I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
Carl Barks
#40. The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic.
...
I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights.
Tariq Ramadan
#41. I always want to give the victim a voice.
Ann Rule
#43. I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
Langston Hughes
#44. I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.
Suzanne Shaw
#45. Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.
Patricia Briggs
#46. I wish I could say I was a victim but I willingly played into the devil's hands. My reasons weren't always right and my justifications weren't just, but my weaknesses were common.
Jimmy Gleacher
#47. But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.
Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.
Paulo Coelho
#48. There's no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It's always someone else's fault. Usually people just blame the victim.
Meg Cabot
#49. Just to take a couple steps back historically, Korea, as you can see, is located among what we call big countries. And historically we've always been the victim of numerous invasions and whatnot.
Lee Myung-bak
#50. It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and safe that night held by the sea and a good man and my own good fortune victim and witness to all the transitory sweetness like Gatsby's dreams that stood before and behind me.
Gail Caldwell
#51. There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. - Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath
P.A. Speers
#52. A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#53. Once victim, always victim-that's the law.
Thomas Hardy
#54. I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall.
Julie Plec
#55. I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.
Neil Tennant
#56. I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.
Kerry Greenwood
#57. In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
Adrienne Barbeau
#58. The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem low and made sure that they stayed in psychic immiseration. She was a curator of dead souls.
Irvine Welsh
#59. It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and they end up by saying that it's the victim of violence who is "really" inciting it.
Christopher Hitchens
#60. No matter how many times I survived, there was always another danger around the corner, and I still wasn't used to being the victim. I was Chase Williams, a demon hunter. I wasn't supposed to be the one looking over my shoulder, I was supposed to be stalking prey.
M.R. Merrick
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