Victim Proneness

Famous quotes containing the words victim and/or proneness:

    “It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscription of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)