Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

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

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

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

Those who are beaten become beaters.

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

Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

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

Bullies are just frightened people.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

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

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.