Crime Victim Quotes

#1. Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

Bernhard Goetz

#2. I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

Nancy Grace

#3. If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

Claire McCaskill

#4. Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

Barry Glassner

#5. Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Robert Kennedy

#6. The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.

Albert Einstein

#7. Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

Anna C. Salter

#9. 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

#10. Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

Gary Bauer

#11. How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

Gad Saad

#13. Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

Richard Dawkins

#14. The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

Elie Wiesel

#15. And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

Patty Hearst

#16. Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim
letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

C.R. Strahan

#17. Victims of violent crime are not always believed ...
[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]

Natascha Kampusch

#18. They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don't have to prove anything to me.

Alina Klein

#19. There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.

Marc MacYoung

#20. Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Gloria Steinem

#21. I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

Michael Kirby

#22. The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim.

R.C. Sproul

#23. 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

#24. In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary, and honest should be tolerated regardless of whether we agree with it. Part of the price of our own freedom is allowing others to be free.

Scott Banister

#25. Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

P.D. James

#26. When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

Benjamin Jealous

#27. The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren't the ones who had been the victim of the Wests, how could they have understood?

Stephen Richards

#28. It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.

M.F. Moonzajer

#29. 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

#30. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

#31. When backed into a corner, a victim has two options: he can lie down and die, or, he can fight regardless of the odds.

Marc Schiller

#32. Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Freda Adler

#33. There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

Werner Herzog

#34. A shocking ultimatum is issued; choose the victim or it defaults to someone you hold dear. And she has just minutes to decide. As each crime becomes more brutal, she is forced to play devil's advocate as she chooses the next target.
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Caroline Mitchell

#35. When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, 'Well, it's men hurting other men.' When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, 'Well, it's blacks hurting blacks.' The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.

Warren Farrell

#36. An act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

#37. Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance

Howard Zehr

#38. There is no point of relaying statistics on rape because for every figure given there are thousands missing, unreported. It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pain and suffering, silenced by fear that judgment will come before justice.

Aysha Taryam

#39. Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

Ronald Reagan

#40. The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

B. Barmanbek

#41. I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Alfred Hitchcock

#42. Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Steve Coogan

#43. I would counsel her to maintain the pregnancy on the grounds that the developing baby within her is a co-victim
of the rapist's heinous crime. To kill the fetus, who is innocent of the offense, is to add insult to injury.

R.C. Sproul

#44. Watanabe would later admit that in the beginning of his life in exile, he had pondered the question of whether or not he had committed any crime. In the end, he laid the blame not on himself but on "sinful, absurd, insane war." He saw himself as a victim.

Laura Hillenbrand

#45. [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.

Ayn Rand

#46. But I'm completely innocent in this case. I'm the victim. Don't you understand? If she'd just dressed in an appropriate manner, nothing would have happened. I'm a peaceful man, and now I'm going to prison.
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#47. Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives.

Amit Abraham

#48. But he had been the victim of the world's most common crime - his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen again

Aurelio Voltaire

#49. When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

S.J. Rozan

#50. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read

Johnny Cash

#51. Murder is no less a crime when the victim is common born.

Rae Carson

#52. If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

Jeff Cooper