Jeff Smith Quotes

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

More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

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

Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically a victim's position, giving power to people and things outside of ourselves. We are beginning to realize that the power rests in us, that we can choose to create our life the way we want it to be.

How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.

Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.

People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.

I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

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

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.