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Blue Flame II
Original: (ja) 自分は被災者なのかスケーターなのか、ということにすごく迷っていた時期もあったんですけど、どっちでもないのかなという気がしました。明確な答えはまだ出てないですけど、スケーターとして本当にいろんな方に支えられてるなと感じています。
A collection of quotes on the topic of victim, people, doing, likeness.
Annotation: This quote originates from the same source as the one above.
Page: 46.
Blue Flame II
Original: (ja) 自分は被災者なのかスケーターなのか、ということにすごく迷っていた時期もあったんですけど、どっちでもないのかなという気がしました。明確な答えはまだ出てないですけど、スケーターとして本当にいろんな方に支えられてるなと感じています。
“I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”
Its okay to tell a lie but believing in your own lies makes you the first victim, you become your own enemy which limits ability to think progressively towards success in life.
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.124 (July 2018)
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
Variant: Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.
“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”
Source: Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words
About reverse racism, as quoted in Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/ben-shapiro-conservative.html (November 23, 2017) by Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times.
2017
“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”
On voluntary euthanasia as quoted in People's Daily Online (14 June 2006) http://english.people.com.cn/200606/14/eng20060614_273839.html
“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
Inside Edition Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtvmGdzgdLM
Source: The Art of War, Chapter V · Forces
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. It is impossible even to begin the act of loving one's enemies without prior acceptance of the necessity, over and over again, of forgiving those who inflict evil and injury upon us. It is also necessary to realize that the forgiving act must always be initiated by the person who has been wronged, the victim of some great hurt, the recipient of some tortuous injustice, the absorber of some terrible act of oppression. The wrongdoer may request forgiveness. He may come to himself, and, like the prodigal son, move up with some dusty road, his heart palpitating with the desire for forgiveness. But only the injured neighbor, the loving father back home can really pour out the warm waters of forgiveness.
According to Reuters Fact Check team there is no evidence of the quotation in collections of Orwell’s works. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-orwell-quote-corrupt-idUSKCN2AT2W5
Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 506.
Thirukkural
2012, Remarks at Clinton Global Initiative (September 2012)
So I understood that if a ship crosses the sea without a purpose, it will arrive at no port. What prevents life from devouring us is having a purpose. The higher it is, the further it will carry us...
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prizefrom (2018)
1984 interview with Detective Robert Keppel (regarding the Green River Killer)
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
Part of the speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Summer 2010)
Source: CBS 2 News interview (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqB_4N6erE
Quote from 'Time Magazine', 10 March 1952; as quoted on Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
1951 - 1968
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLc_MC7NQek&t=0s "2017 Personality 04/05: Heroic and Shamanic Initiations"
Source: Denis Mukwege (2021) cited in " 'We Cannot Rest in Our Fight.' Angelina Jolie Talks to Dr. Denis Mukwege About Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence https://time.com/6124350/angelina-jolie-denis-mukwege/" on TIME, 1 December 2021.
Chicago Defender (1 April 1998)
Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
History and Utopia (1960)
“We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.”
Source: Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Source: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 22
Source: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
homily of J-P II at Radom military base in Warsaw, Poland on June 4, 1991.
Source: Unborn Word of the Day http://unbornwordoftheday.com/2007/07/13/jpii-revealed-heartfelt-pain-about-abortion-to-his-countrymen/
Statement by the President (20 August 2014) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/20/statement-president
2014
Letter to Ottoline Morrell, 17 December, 1920
1920s
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)
“No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim.”
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
2015, Address to the Nation by the President on San Bernardino (December 2015)
"We are Power" speech (1980)
“Contracts,” Martin said viciously, “are a lot more enforceable than love.”
Source: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 16 (pp. 136-137)
J’ai pensé que l’ordre social était dans la nature même des choses, et n’empruntait de l’esprit humain que le soin d’en mettre à leur place les éléments divers; qu’un peuple pouvait être gouverné sans être assujetti, sans être licencieux, et sans être opprimé; que l’homme naissait pour la paix et pour la liberté, et n’était malheureux et corrompu que par les lois insidieuses de la domination. Alors j’imaginai que si l’on donnait à l’homme des lois selon la nature et son cœur, il cesserait d’être malheureux et corrompu.
Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/stjust_constitution_24_04_93.htm, speech to the National Convention (April 24, 1793).
Inscription at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall http://web.archive.org/web/20031117142036/http://www.kremlin.ru/events/photos/2001/11/39974.shtml (15 November 2001).
2000 - 2005
President Obama Speaks on the Explosions in Boston (15 April 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/15/president-obama-speaks-explosions-boston
2013
Addressing the House of Commons after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1 May 1865)
1860s
2008, A More Perfect Union (March 2008)
“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them.”
[Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks, TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, www.ted.com, July 2010, 2010-07-22, http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_wikileaks.html]
2015, Address to the Nation by the President on San Bernardino (December 2015)
As quoted by The Christian Science Monitor (1 April 1974) This has sometimes appeared paraphrased: "Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim."
Source: 1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Ch. VIII : The New York Governorship
The Time Finally Comes for Anastacia http://www.pauseandplay.com/the-time-finally-comes-for-anastacia/, PauseandPlay.com, April 9, 2000.
General Quotes
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), pp. 156-157
Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 9
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
Parochial and Plain Sermons, London, 1868; quoted in Matthew Scully, [//books.google.it/books?id=SYY7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30 Dominion] (2002).
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 11 “We Hate Malachi Constant Because...” (p. 253)
Ne peut-on pas remonter jusqu’à ces anciens scélérats, fondateurs illustres de la superstition et du fanatisme, qui, les premiers, ont pris le couteau sur l’autel pour faire des victimes de ceux qui refusaient d’etre leurs disciples?
Letter to Frederick II of Prussia (December 1740), published in Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Vol. 7 (1869) http://books.google.com/books?id=z9MWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105#v=onepage&q&f=false, edited by Georges Avenel, p. 105; as translated by Richard Aldington
Citas
1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)
2015, Remarks after the Umpqua Community College shooting (October 2015)
Response to observations made in In A Minor Key by Charles D. Isaacson, in The Conservative, Vol. I, No. 2, (1915), p. 4
Non-Fiction
Appeal for Dreyfus delivered at his trial for libel (22 February 1898).
Context: Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it — my honor! At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal which is the representative of human justice, before you, gentlemen of the jury, who are the very incarnation of the country, before the whole of France, before the whole world, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. By my forty years of work, by the authority that this toil may have given me, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. By all I have now, by the name I have made for myself, by my works which have helped for the expansion of French literature, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. May all that melt away, may my works perish if Dreyfus be not innocent! He is innocent. All seems against me — the two Chambers, the civil authority, the military authority, the most widely-circulated journals, the public opinion which they have poisoned. And I have for me only an ideal of truth and justice. But I am quite calm; I shall conquer. I was determined that my country should not remain the victim of lies and injustice. I may be condemned here. The day will come when France will thank me for having helped to save her honor.
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
Context: No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver—no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
Assessing St. Augustine's perspectives in "Augustus to Augustine", p. 37
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: Man … always acts either self-loving, just for the hell of it, or God-loving, just for the heaven of it; his reasons, his appetites are secondary motivations. Man chooses either life or death, but he chooses; everything he does, from going to the toilet to mathematical speculation, is an act of religious worship, either of God or of himself.
Lastly by the classical apotheosis of Man-God, Augustine opposes the Christian belief in Jesus Christ, the God-Man. The former is a Hercules who compels recognition by the great deeds he does in establishing for the common people in the law, order and prosperity they cannot establish for themselves, by his manifestation of superior power; the latter reveals to fallen man that God is love by suffering, i. e. by refusing to compel recognition, choosing instead to be a victim of man's self-love. The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has been made, is very new.
Speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem (13 December 1964), later published in Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements (1965), edited by George Breitman, p. 93
Context: The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
If you aren't careful, because I've seen some of you caught in that bag, you run away hating yourself and loving the man — while you're catching hell from the man. You let the man maneuver you into thinking that it's wrong to fight him when he's fighting you. He's fighting you in the morning, fighting you in the noon, fighting you at night and fighting you all in between, and you still think it's wrong to fight him back. Why? The press. The newspapers make you look wrong.
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Context: Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.