“You are a victim of the rules you live by.”

“The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

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

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

“New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

“I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams… no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams. ”

Jared Leto (1971) American actor and musician

“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.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“If you remove yourself far enough from the limited point of view of pain, you will see that we are all nothing but the victims of victims.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer

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

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.”

Theodore Sturgeon book More Than Human