“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”

“When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.”

“If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.”

“No one can make you a victim but yourself.”

“There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.”

“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”

“You have got to stop seeing yourself as a victim, take control and take responsibility.”

“I want to ask you, to use some empathy right now. And when I say 'empathy', what I'm saying is: place yourself in the position of the animals, and start to view this issue from the animals' point of view. From the victims' point of view. When you examine any form of injustice, whether humans are victims or animals are victims, please remember the victim's point of view. If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when you're not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.”

“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”

“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”