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Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood -- Dennis Prager
People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them. -- Richard Paul Evans
Lies and victimhood make evil possible -- Dennis Prager
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood. -- Criss Jami
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. -- Christopher Hitchens
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. -- bell hooks
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. -- Phyllis Schlafly
No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you? -- Barbara Marciniak
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you. -- Joseph Sobran
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint. -- George Will
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus. -- Thomas Sowell
If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood. -- Desmond Tutu
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. -- Tariq Ramadan
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity. -- Dean Koontz
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions. -- Serge Schmemann
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence. -- Theodore Dalrymple
If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life. -- Jonathan Franzen
Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood... -- J. G. Ballard
Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department. -- James Taranto
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, Mitigate, counteract, or transmute. -- Stephen A. Diamond
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. -- Robert O. Paxton
Victimhood and a 'can't do' spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. -- Cal Thomas
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression. -- Stefan Molyneux
We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else will not make me happy. These things are my responsibility. Not the neighbor's, not the government's, not the church or the civic club. -- Joel Salatin
You can't stand in gratitude if you're stuck in victimhood. -- Robin Sharma
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. -- Alan Ball
I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad. -- Gene Weingarten
When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity. -- Tammy Bruce
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories. -- Kevin Starr
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. -- Joyce Maynard
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions." -- Serge Schmemann
There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression." -- Christina Hoff Sommers

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