victim quotes

He cultivated to perfection the sneer which he used like an oyster-knife, inserting it into the shell of his victim, exposing him with a quick-turn of the wrist, and finally flipping him over and inviting his audience to discard him as tainted and inedible.

- Noe«  l Gilroy, Baron Annan
  On the critic F R Leavis. English Intellectuals Between the World Wars.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.Unless I can do that I am nothing.

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  Surfacing.

A potent quack, long versed in human ills, Who first insults the victim whom he kills; Whose murd'rous hand a drowsy bench protect, And whose most tender mercy is neglect.

- George Crabbe
  The Village, bk.1, l.282.

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.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Representative Men,'Goethe'.

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little listI've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And whonever would be missed whonever would be missed! There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Ko-Ko's song, The Mikado, act1.

Die breite Masse einesVolkes†einer groÞen Lu«  ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation†will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

- Adolf Hitler
  Mein Kampf (My Struggle,1939), ch.10.

You have been the victim of creative suffering.

- Martin LutherJr King
  Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.

I had learned that if one cannot call a country to heel like a dog, neither can one dismiss the past with a smile in an easygushof feeling, saying: Icould not help it,Iamalsoa victim.

- Doris May ne  e Tayler Lessing
This was the Old Chief's Country,'The Old Chief Mshlanga'.

I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

- Paul Merton
  In the Daily Telegraph, 21  Apr.

Entre le ro"  le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.

-Crayencour
  Qui n'a pas son Minotaure?, pt.3.