“No other victims are more maligned than victims of psychic fraud. The embarrassment of being swindled plays right into the hands of phony psychics.”

— Bob Nygaard

Psychic Scams Steal Millions From Unwitting Victims https://web.archive.org/web/20180126040018/http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/bob-nygaard-helps-psychic-scam-victims-9397958, Miami New Times (6 June 2017)

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private detective specializing in psychic fraud

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Poison Princess

“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more successful than ourselves”

Slavoj Žižek book Living in the End Times

Living in the End Times (2010)

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“Psychics exploit the human being's natural desire that longs for something higher than themselves.”

Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate

TV appearances

“Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.”

Tom Clancy book The Hunt for Red October

Source: The Hunt for Red October

“The supposed psychical gulf between human and non-human beings has no more existence, outside the flamboyant imagination of man, than has the once-supposed physical gulf. It is pure fiction. The supposition is a relic of the rapidly dwindling vanity of anthropocentricism, and is perpetuated from age to age by human selfishness and conceit. It has no foundation either in science or in common-sense. Man strives to lessen his guilt by the laudation of himself and the disparagement and degradation of his victims.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

"The Conflict of Science and Tradition", p. 108
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Psychical Kinship

“One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there’s competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

UN expert on democracy highlights importance of free expression, information http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46355&Cr=information&Cr1=#.Um9rdr_3DjA.
2013

“Buonaparte's foreign policy was force and menace, aided by fraud and corruption. If the fraud was discovered, force and menace succeeded; and in most cases the unfortunate victim did not dare to avow that he perceived the fraud.”

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) British soldier and statesman

Letter to John Wilson Croker (29 December 1835), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 288

“No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.”

C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 209

“Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 214.

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