Victim
A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
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Victim Quotations
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Richard Bach
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Charles Baudelaire
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden
Victim Translations
victim in Afrikaans is slagoffer
victim in Dutch is dupe, getroffene, slachtoffer
victim in German is Opfer, Opfer, Schlachtopfer
victim in Italian is sacrificio
victim in Norwegian is offer
victim in Swedish is offer
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