#victims

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. ↗

— Amos Oz

#arab #between #case #children #conflict

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) ↗

— John Irving

#craft #novels #victims #writing #writing-craft

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#family #formidable #friends #friends and family #full

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

#also #deaths #died #just #keep

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. ↗

— William Glasser

#control #depress #feeling #over #victims

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#could #darfur #month #per #seeing

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#conscience #cry #enough #face #facing

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. ↗

— Ann Rule

#away #back #battered #books #cause

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#fascism #kills #number #them #victims

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#entrepreneurial #exclusion #first #hitler #israel