Quotes About Victimization

#1. I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

Ariel Pink

#2. I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.

Walter Kirn

#3. If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.

Bret Easton Ellis

#4. The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Alphonso Jackson

#5. The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.

Rene Girard

#6. On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

Warren Farrell

#7. They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

Ari Shavit

#8. I think the media projected the case of Asia Bibi in a right way. They have given the importance of this case and especially how the blasphemy law is being misused for the victimization [of religious minorities].

Shahbaz Bhatti

#9. And that sort of victimization narrative is something we shouldn't contribute to. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that there is a radical element in Islam, jihadism, that needs to be called by name and needs to be confronted.

Marco Rubio

#10. Today, I will understand that I hold the key to my freedom. I will stop participating in my oppression and victimization. I will take responsibility for myself, and let others do as they may.

Melody Beattie

#11. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

#12. People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Joy Kogawa

#13. Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#14. The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Alice Miller

#15. Victimization is often a dynamic. In many cases the victim is also a participant in their own victimization.

Bryant McGill

#16. For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

Warren Farrell

#17. There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

David Finkelhor

#18. A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Shelby Steele

#19. With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.

Warren Farrell

#20. Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

Mason Cooley

#21. There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Alan Ball

#22. We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.

Vishwas Chavan

#23. I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as a survivor. I think of myself as someone who through forgiveness has healed her soul and body and moved on to help other people.

Stephanie Davis

#24. It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#25. The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

Meda Chesney-Lind

#26. Failure to examine the victimization of men keeps us from understanding maleness, from uncovering the space of connection that might lead more men to seek feminist transformation.

Bell Hooks

#27. Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

Charlie Munger

#28. when a victim tells her story and people respond with You-should-have-this or You-should-never-have-that, they are often adding to the victimization.

Gavin De Becker

#29. Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing

Shane Claiborne

#30. Something in her demanded victimization and terror, so she corrupted my dreams, led me into dark places I had no wish to explore. It was no longer clear to me which of us was the victim. Perhaps we were victims of one another.

Anna Kavan

#31. What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.

Camille Paglia

#32. The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities.

James Comey

#33. No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Robert Brustein

#34. Remember that we become what we believe that we should be, so resentment may stop us from realizing it. Resentment and victimization affect your vibration and lead you to attract challenges related to more situations that make you feel like a victim and resentful.

Daniel Marques

#35. A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility.

Mark Brightlife

#36. He was dead.
No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.

Prerna Varma

#37. I hate the victimization of women, always.

Claire Denis

#38. The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subtle, psychological technique of the North has approached in its ugliness and victimization of the Negro the outright terror and open brutality of the South.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#39. I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. I don't wanna be a lover,
I just wanna be your victim.

Elvis Costello

#41. God might choose his own time, but Reagan had a taste for coming to the rescue.

Rick Perlstein

#42. There is not enough money, not enough staff and volunteers in the world, to support a permanent population of rescuers and victims.

Robert Watson

#43. Some victims do need to "blame" themselves and take responsibility.

Bryant McGill

#44. I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To "prove" I wasn't a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm's way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.

Christina Enevoldsen

#45. Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Bryant McGill

#46. Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.

C. Terry Warner