When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy.
Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.
In a strange way, Hillary Clinton was helped and victimized by Barack and Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama was probably better than Barack Obama, if you think about it. Her speech is a masterful, masterful speech. And she delivered it in a persuasively conversational tone.
Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. . . . Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.
The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.
You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.
You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.
When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.
I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.
Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.
I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness
Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.
