(569 quotes found)
“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.”
Camille Paglia
“I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.”
Lisa Marie Presley
“I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world.”
William Saroyan
“A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims”
Douglas Jerrold
“It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.”
Che Guavara
“By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever”
Kelly McGillis
“The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.”
Countee Cullen
“I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?”
Paul Merton
“It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.”
Marquis De Sade