Victim Proneness

Famous quotes containing the words victim and/or proneness:

    The great mass of people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

    Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscription of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)