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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
alan barth— The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties (1984)
"If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims," said I, with affected indifference, "you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised."
anne brontë— Ch. XVI : The Substitution
"This is double selfishness displayed to me and to the victims of his former love."
anne brontë— Helen Graham (Ch. XXIV : First Quarrel)
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
robert f. kennedy— Farewell statement, Warsaw, Poland, reported in The New York Times (July 2, 1964).
Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a match.
ingrid newkirk— The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999November 12
— After The Justice Department mailed 87 razor blade–laced threats to medical researchers studying news drugs on primates
His style is perfect joy, and it is only when one has come across a fairer and kindlier handling of one of his victims that one is resentful of his tittering.
lytton strachey— George Lyttelton, letter to Rupert Hart-Davis, October 23, 1957, in The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters Vols. 1 & 2 (1985) p. 374. ISBN 0719542464.
Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.
henning von tresckow— Philipp von Boeselager, Daily Telegraph book review of Valkyrie: the Plot to Kill Hitler by Philipp von Boeselager , February 5, 2008.
Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.
paul blobel— Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 157 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961
The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and lowly.
john bright— Speech before the House of Commons opposing the Crimean War (23 February 1855)
Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers and children's prisons are closed forever. His mass graves will claim no victims.
george w. bush— 18 October 2003, to the Philippine Congress [43]
We want the disaster victims to know we have not forgotten them. I'm here with help.
gloria estefan— comment about Hurricane Katrina relief effort on September 12, 2005
Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock; Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion rends the solid oak: Ah Heaven! behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.
william falconer— Canto III, line 642.
Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
warren farrell— p. 214. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
— homily of J-P II at Radom military base in Warsaw, Poland on June 4, 1991.Source: Unborn Word of the Day
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato— 344c (Book I)
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 putin— Inscription at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall (15 November 2001).
I stand here before you in absolute awe of the fact that Congressman Ryan, Patricia's father, gave his life in an attempt to rescue victims from another dangerous cult. Looking at the politicians who serve in our Congress today, should make everyone realize what a rare man Leo Ryan was. I greatly admire him.
leo j. ryan— Richard Behar at a Cult Awareness Network conference (1992)
“Sir Tristano spoke: “Stop! You are taking the great green pearl!” “Naturally!” said the voice from a point close behind. “That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim’s valuables!”
jack vance— Chapter 1, section 4 (p. 375)
Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm. ...healthfulness being their chief object.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 9
Providing compensation (to the victims of White Terror) will not write off the incidents once and for all.
— Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: "Ma says thousands of White Terror era victims have received compensation" in The Taipei Times, 17 July 2013.
— Statement made at a memorial service marking the 26th anniversary of the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, 15 July 2013.
Bhopal is a calamity without end...Today, fully a quarter of a century later, victims of this, the world's worst industrial disaster, are still being born.
— Nina Lakhani, in “Twenty-five years on, the world's worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there's been no trial (29 November 2009)”
"The word ‘citizens’ used in the call for the meeting is significant. From the time Minamata disease first became an issue, up to the present, in such contexts it has meant not all residents of the city but only those who are not directly involved. In other words, in excludes Minamata disease victims, fishing families, and company employees..."
— Timothy S. George on the democratization of Japan through Minamata disease, Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press: 2001. p. 93.
The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, pp. 175–176 (2007)}
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
— By John Irving QuotationsBook.com. Quotes about Fiction. Quotations Book. p. 6. GGKEY:LY0WH9CXD4G.
The facts, indeed, connected with this gloomy department of statistics show that the most valuable period of human life that in which a man is producing more than he is consuming is that which provides the greatest number of victims.
— p.18 (Sanitary Economy (1850))
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great, pp. 175–176 (2007).
I understand the victim’s feelings on this. And I sympathize, I do. But for good or ill, the justice system doesn’t work on behalf of victims; it works on behalf of justice .
— Jefff Fecke, on a victim's plea to drop rape charges against Roman Polanski, as quoted in
Stand up, all victims of oppression, For the tyrants fear your might!
— 1990 modern English version by Billy Bragg
The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great, pp. 175–176 (2007).
