Victimized Quotes

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

Marilyn Manson

#2. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Andrea Dworkin

#4. Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

Andrew Vachss

#5. If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.

Erin Merryn

#6. When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

Dallas Willard

#7. Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done ... But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.

E. Lockhart

#8. We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects ... and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Isaac Asimov

#9. I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?
or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.

Jules Feiffer

#11. Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

Leonard Michaels

#12. Clearly, 9/11 would have to be some of the best work that I've done because I was working without a template, and that was very difficult. Having nearly been victimized by the north tower, it was difficult to remain composed and be informative.

Ashleigh Banfield

#13. I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

Ted Danson

#14. If you plan on becoming sick then guess what - you may get sick. If you don't plan on being sick you might get sick, but you won't feel victimized.

Art Hochberg

#15. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Brandi L. Bates

#16. I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Diane Keaton

#17. Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans at all.

Rick Perlstein

#18. Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.

John Lachs

#19. You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

L. Neil Smith

#20. Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

A.E. Samaan

#21. It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

Ban Ki-moon

#22. The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God's battalions.

Rodney Stark

#23. We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Nenia Campbell

#24. I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,

Marilyn Manson

#25. So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

Libba Bray

#26. The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Katherine Dunn

#27. You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

Gary Snyder

#28. To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.

Debbie Ford

#29. The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Henri Nouwen

#30. I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

Sandra Bernhard

#31. It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#32. When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

Milan Kundera

#33. As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.

Kevin DeYoung

#34. Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.

Tom Robbins

#35. I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.

Leonard Cohen

#36. Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

Annie Lennox

#37. Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

Bell Hooks

#38. I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

Benigno Aquino III

#39. That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

Condoleezza Rice

#40. Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

Lena Dunham

#41. I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

Joshua Cohen

#42. We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it.

Amber Heard

#43. People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

Thomas Szasz

#44. John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Mark Shields

#45. It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.

Lawrence Jordan

#46. That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.

Michael Lewis

#47. To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less victimized by the whims of whatever impossible fate had brought me here,

Diana Gabaldon

#48. The wrath of God is inescapably bound up with the love of God. Permissive love which did not act to protect victimized loved ones would inspire no one.

Matt Chandler

#49. Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

Herman Melville

#50. I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Green Day

#51. We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#52. You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents.

Jack Welch

#53. Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

Nevada Barr

#54. The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.

John Horton Conway

#55. What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

Teri Hatcher

#56. Sorrow and self-pity consume enormous quantities of energy. If you only can desist from feeling victimized by fate and look for a new solution instead, not only would you conserve old energies but at the same time also feel the surge of the new. New hope is kindled in the process.

G.R. Gopinath

#57. Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain.No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated and victimized at three in the morning.

Susane Colasanti

#58. When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy.

Jude Bijou

#59. I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

Patty Duke

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

Bryant McGill

#61. On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

Shinzo Abe

#62. The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

Hillary Clinton

#63. For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

Wayne LaPierre

#64. I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.

Niecy Nash

#65. I made it clear that I will consider - this is the important phrase I am trying to say - myself most fortunate if Jesus Christ will accept the sacrifice of my blood to raise the voice for the justice and rights of the persecuted and victimized Christians and other minorities in Pakistan.

Shahbaz Bhatti

#66. The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

Gordon Smith

#67. Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

Pauli Murray

#68. People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the minute they have a kid, that they cease being the child so fondly victimized in their hearts and start being the benighted perpetrators of unfathomable pain.

Joshua Ferris

#69. 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

#70. One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

Wendy Craig

#71. We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

Jacqueline Novogratz