Victims Quotes
Sad Quotes about Victims

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly
terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler

We always see the innocent victims in the stories,
and I am a little bored with that.
I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
- Bill Williams

Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing,
we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims;
whoever comes along will most likely do.
- Pat Brown

I guess I've played a lot of victims,
but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
- Jodie Foster

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with
the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to
wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
- Terence McKenna

It takes two to make a murder.
There are born victims, born to have their throats cut,
as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
- Aldous Huxley

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who
are successful and have a family.
Women are nearly always seen as victims.
- Francesca Annis

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become
victims to women who make advances to them.
- Walter Bagehot

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels,
we're dependent on the Middle East.
If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
- John McHugh

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the
numbers of people who died;
it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
- Iris Chang

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed
me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
- Louise Jameson

The generosity of the American public toward the victims
of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected
in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.
- Jon Porter

We take our international responsibilities very seriously
and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq...
Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
- Marek Belka

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy,
we could all become victims of identity theft.
- Bill Nelson

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our
century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery,
that of the unborn.
- Pope John Paul II

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness;
our wickedness from thinking on wickedness.
We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
- John Jay Chapman

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
- Smokey Robinson

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for
the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
- C. S. Lewis

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence.
None of those things can take place without the complicity
of the people who run the schools and the city.
- Toni Morrison

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before
the war less well off than Germany.
They should not be expected by Germany to bear,
unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
- James F. Byrnes

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate
needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results.
I am very happy for all these small children,
who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.
- Anatoly Karpov

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with
the brain chemicals released during capture bonding
would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.
- Keith Henson

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children,
we must also provide services, resources and counseling
to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.
- Jim Costa

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic
security for victims of domestic violence.
- Lucille Roybal-Allard

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed
a multitude of innocent civilian victims:
Men,
women and children, Arab and Israeli.
- John Conyers

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy,
to victims, their families, employers,
friends, and credit-card companies.
- Keith Henson

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking
an avenue of escape for the victims.
- Robert Iler

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes,
I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
- Peter De Vries

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond to-day.
- Thomas Gray

All serial killers want to win.
They choose victims they can kill successfully.
- Pat Brown

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
- Jean-Marie Le Pen

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing
the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
- Louise Slaughter

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.
- William P. Leahy

Too much mercy...
often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to
innocent victims who need not have been victims if
justice had been put first and mercy second.
- Agatha Christie

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving
negatively towards the West.
We must participate with the West on an equal footing
in the reconstruction of the world.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers.
I am finding out that helping victims is as or more
rewarding the all the awards I wins.
- Mariska Hargitay

You kept quiet...
When these victims wanted your help to survive,
you kept quiet.
- Paul Kagame

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction.
But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns.
It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.
- Andrew Niccol

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims.
The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
- Betty Friedan

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today,
and it destroys not only these innocent victims,
but their families as well.
- Michael McCaul

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens,
have sent taunting letters to the police or have done
bizarre things to the bodies.
- Pat Brown

We are really the victims of our own problems.
- Jimmy Greaves

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand
that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
- George Jackson

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
- Michael Badnarik

Blondes make the best victims.
They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
- Alfred Hitchcock

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights:
it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force
against legally disarmed victims.
- Ayn Rand

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite,
remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
- John Barton

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured
tanks seems to have been more important to me than
the vanished victims of racism.
- Albert Speer

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this,
using art as therapy.
Escaping into the worlds we create.
We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
- David Lloyd

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by
an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
- Ben Elton

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward,
during surgery, or while drawing blood.
- Michael Crichton

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy.
It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews.
It can also be other people.
- Simon Wiesenthal

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate,
who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy
what little time they have left.
- Ingrid Bergman

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant,
always on the lookout for fresh victims.
- Douglas Jerrold

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims.
As I write I keep looking for casualties.
The stories uncover the casualties.
- John Irving

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture,
but they are also its carriers.
Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised
in the confines of his mother's home.
- Shirin Ebadi

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it,
or thinks he does, as it is to its victims;
the second it crushes,
the first it intoxicates.
The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
- Simone Weil

They know they're going to look beautiful,
and I don't think women should look like costumes.
They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
- Ralph Lauren

The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children,
helpless victims in a war they did not understand.
- John Whitehead

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached
a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood
always and only as presumptive victims.
- Judith Butler

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance,
crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds,
not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
- William Greider

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
- Rick Larsen

My family and I held no hatred for those people because
we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
- Ryan White

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women,
who are the chief victims of patriarchy,
and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
- Kate Millett

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims
suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that
made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
- Betty Friedan

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're
seeing 100,000 victims per month.
- Nicholas D. Kristof

I don't believe in devils.
Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations.
Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are
really victims of evil deeds.
- Max von Sydow

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.
- Billy Tauzin