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Esteemed chairman of the court, today we have to pass a verdict on the defendants Nicolae Ceau?escu and Elena Ceau?escu who have committed the following offenses: Crimes against the people. They carried out acts that are incompatible with human dignity and social thinking; they acted in a despotic and criminal way; they destroyed the people whose leaders they claimed to be. Because of the crimes they committed against the people, I plead, on behalf of the victims of these two tyrants, for the death sentence for the two defendants.
nicolae ceauşescu— Chief prosecutor Dan Voinea at the Ceau?escus' trial (25 December 1989)
I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.
shirley chisholm— P. 37. (Unbought and Unbossed (1970))
The world thought well of my schoolmaster guardian, because he was neither a liar, nor a scamp, nor a gambler; but he was coarse, avaricious, and ignorant; he knew nothing beyond the confused lessons which he taught to his classes. He imagined that in forcing a youth to become a monk he would be offering a sacrifice acceptable to God. He used to boast of the many victims which he devoted annually to Dominic and Francis and Benedict.
— As quoted in Life and Letters of Erasmus: Lectures Delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1899) by James Anthony Froude
Of course it’s also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness.
michael pollan— "Unhappy Meals". The New York Times Magazine. 2007-01-28. Retrieved on 2007-01-28.
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
— As quoted in The Last Word : A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner, p. 147
Do you want Australian tax exemptions to be supporting an organisation that coerces its followers into having abortions? Do you want to be supporting an organisation that defrauds, that blackmails, that falsely imprisons? Because on the balance of evidence provided by victims of Scientology you probably are.
nick xenophon— From 2009 November 17 speech on Scientology in Australia Senate, cited in "Scientology a 'criminal organisation'". ABC News. 18 November 2009. Retrieved on 2009-11-18.
I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.
nick xenophon— "Legal eagles discuss justice system". Stateline (ABC). 13 May 2005. Retrieved on 2009-11-17.
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— Chapter 7 (Practical Agitation (1900))
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
joseph conrad— letter to Robert Cunninghame-Graham, January 1898, published in Frederick R Karl and Laurence Davies, eds., The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad,, vol. 2, p. 30. ISBN 0521257484
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
joseph conrad— Pt. II, ch. 3
When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, ‘Well, it’s men hurting other men.’ When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, ‘Well, it’s blacks hurting blacks.’ The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.
warren farrell— p. 215. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
Since 1954, then, approximately 70,000 women have murdered; their victims include about 60,000 men, but, as we saw in the second Item of this chapter, not one woman has been executed after killing only a man. For nearly four decades now, we have become increasingly protective of women and decreasingly protective of men even if that boy is a legal minor, as was Heath Wilkins.
warren farrell— p. 244. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
— "Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism" (1913), as cited by Lloyd L. Brown in a letter to the editor "What Lenin Really Said", The New York Times (14 April 1990), p. 122
"She ends her letter, characteristically, by picturing me and her other critics as indifferent to the suffering of women. But many feminists, including several who wrote or spoke to me about my review, regret her single-minded concentration on lurid sex. They think that though it has predictably attracted much publicity, it tends to stereotype women as victims, and takes attention from still urgent questions of economic, political, and professional equality."
catharine mackinnon— "Pornography: An Exchange", response by Ronald Dworkin to Catherine Mackinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
jean-paul sartre— "On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération (22 June 1953)
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
jean-paul sartre— Loser Wins (Les Séquestrés d'Altona: A Play in Five Acts) (1960)
The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.
alfred de zayas— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [18]
One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there’s competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.
alfred de zayas— UN expert on democracy highlights importance of free expression, information [35]
Even in India there are but few places so rich in historical memories as Patna. Beneath the soil watered by the blood of Mir Kasim’s victims, lie the ruins of the ancient Buddhist capital, Pataliputra, the greatness of which had been foretold by Buddha a few months before his death .
— Walter Kelly Firminger, ed.(1909) in The Diaries of Three Surgeons of Patna - 1763, The Calcutta Historical Society
I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!
— Vladimir V. Putin, inscription at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall (15 November 2001).
The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.
— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [18]
An estimated 5,000 economic, political, and religious groups operate in the United States alone at any given time, with 2.5 million members. Over the last ten years, cults have used tactics of coercive mind control to negatively impact an estimated 20 million victims in the last ten years. Worldwide figures are even greater.
— Margaret Singer (1997) Cults in Our Midst; cited in Jeff Spanke (2008) Second Hand Out. p. 251
The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but what insanity when someone who himself has lost the eternal wants to heal the person who is extremely sick unto death!
— Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, Hong p. 7 (1847)
I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!
— Vladimir V. Putin, inscription at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall (15 November 2001).
Well-targeted killing, however, is not evidently more decent than random killing, unless the targeted victims are thought to be more deserving of their fate.
— Ray, Ellen; William H. Schaap, Institute for Media Analysis (2003). Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism. Ocean Press. p. 42. ISBN 1876175842.
Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.
— Chapter 9. (Germania (98))
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
— George D. Prentice, Lookout Mountain, line 16.
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.
— Edmond Taylor, in The Fossil Monarchies.
We are the first victims of American fascism!
— Who: Ethel Rosenberg
— Note: She and her husband Julius were executed in 1953 in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison for treason, having been convicted of passing information to the Soviet Union concerning the construction of the atomic bomb. The judge who condemned them to death said that he did so to prevent the Rosenbergs from ever being released from prison. Their two young children were eventually adopted by songwriter Abel Meeropol.
Again, it reduces someone's moral responsibility and intellectual autonomy to a racial stereotype that all blacks are innocent victims who cannot be held responsible for their beliefs or arguments; or that all blacks are so oppressed that any bigotry they utter is permissible.
— Andrew Sullivan, in The bigotry of Belafonte
