J. G. Ballard Quotes

Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

Because of the mainstreaming of academia's victimhood culture, we are now in a place where we place more value on being a victim than on being heroic, charitable, or even kind.

Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.

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.

It's easy to be a victim. Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something.

We can only make ourselves the victim.

Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

If you're a victim, you're not happy. You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's even difficult to be content.

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.

Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

The anointed are helped to make yet another group feel like victims and to regard the anointed as their rescuers.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.