Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

Don't kick me when I'm down.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

I don't want to be the underdog. I don't want to be the poor guy, getting kicked around.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely