Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from. . It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not to have to see the many homes in which violence rears its conformist, bourgeois head. Society uses the victims of sensational cases such as mine in order to divest itself of the responsibility for the many nameless victims of daily crimes, victims nobody helps — even when they ask for help. Natascha Kampusch
People have forgotten this truth, " the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
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People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically...
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Katja Millay
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.
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Roy T. Bennett
If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.
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Steve Maraboli
Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.
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Joan Didion
More Quotes By Natascha Kampusch
Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.
That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions...
And the victim must have been broken and must remain so, so that the externalization of evil is possible. The victim who refuses to assume this role contradicts society's simplistic view. Nobody wants to see it. People would have to take a look at themselves.
People do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection
...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]
