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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it." »S. I. Hayakawa
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." »Bertrand Russell
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"“A victim mentality is a prolonged form of suicide."" »Steve Maraboli
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"In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always better than to be a killer!" »m
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"You will always be a victim of circumstances if you want to fall prey........... else you would be its enemy" »Siddharth Astir
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"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"“I'm not saying it's wrong to plan for the future. I'm warning not to make today a victim of those plans."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself." »Harvey Fierstein
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"When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." »Henry Adams
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"And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten." »Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
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"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality." »John W. Gardner
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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas
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"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim." »Boris Pasternak
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"He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs." »J. Hawes
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"Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline." »Lewis Mumford
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"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
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"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
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"Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty ... makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche." »Lesley Conger
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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus
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