True Victim

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or victim:

“You are my true and honorable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)