“We are all Victims of Duty.”
Victimes du Devoir [Victims of Duty] (1953)
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Romanian playwright 1909–1994Related quotes
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
A Heritage For All Who Love The Law 51 ABAJ 330 (1965); quoted by United States Senator Howell Heflin during the confirmation debate for Justice David Souter, on September 24, 1990, S13540.
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John F. MacArthur (1939) American pastor and author
"Social Justice and the Gospel, Part 1" https://statementonsocialjustice.com/videos/social-justice-and-the-gospel-part-1/ (August 2018), SJ&G <br class="br">2010s
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 11 “We Hate Malachi Constant Because...” (p. 253)
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part IV: Where do we go from here, p. 357.
“We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
“None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
Context: We had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it. In other words, we are all — though naturally to differing extents — responsible for the operation of the totalitarian machinery. None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators.
