Victim Politics Quotes

#1. Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

Gloria Steinem

#2. The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Silvio Berlusconi

#4. Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#5. We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don't even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause 'collateral damage' to machines that aren't the intended victim.

Mikko Hypponen

#6. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Thucydides

#7. Naturally, people - especially in America - live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.

Ivan Eland

#8. We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.

S. E. Cupp

#9. A project leader should always work with proven technologies in most of the systems as far as possible and experiment only from multiple resources.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#10. You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

Lauren Conrad

#11. Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

Mark Steyn

#12. Our current politics tell you that should you fall victim to such an assault and lose your body, it must somehow be your fault. Trayvon Martin's hoodie got him killed. Jordan Davis's loud music did the same.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#13. Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Horace

#14. Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#15. We ignore intuition at our peril,

Patricia Cornwell

#16. Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Charles Jencks

#17. And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

Val Guest

#18. Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process.

Henri De Lubac

#19. Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

Honore De Balzac

#20. You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

Dennis Prager