#victim

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

#accept #allow #bullied #define #definition

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#called #future #victims

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. ↗

— Emma Watson

#almost #dating #had #how #i

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

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american #american people #been #caused #clean

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#being #energy #establishment #i #interested

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#better #everything #person #point #point of view

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ↗

— E. B. White

#circus #commas #fall #knives #new

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

— Ryan White

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

— John Whitehead

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