Victimary Quotes & Sayings

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident. — Domhnall Gleeson

It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd. — William Shakespeare

George Vida braced his hands on the table before taking his seat, his gaze strafing the room with the discernment of a leathery old goat sniffing for something to nibble on. — Lisa Wingate

MT: That also makes me think of Jesus's "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." And yet, doesn't Christ also speak of violence? RG: "I didn't come to bring peace but war, I came to separate the son from the father, the daughter from the mother, and so on" doesn't mean, "I've come to bring violence," but rather, "I've come to bring a kind of peace that is so utterly free of victims that it surpasses what you are capable of and eventually you'll have to come to a reckoning with your victimary phenomena." These texts are the religious texts of the modern world. They're not just Western. They don't belong to anyone, they're universal. MT — Rene Girard

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. — Daniel Tammet Thinking In Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. — Les Brown

He's like a suicidal Energizer bunny. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? — William Greider

She smiled softly. "What made you change your mind?" "You. — Elizabeth Camden