Quotes by Natascha Kampusch

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“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”

“Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.”

“...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]”

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“Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.”
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
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“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....”
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
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“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
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“...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]”
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
believe court crime disbelief

“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door is theoretically standing wide open. One out of every four women becomes a vict...”
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
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“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 se...”
— Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days
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“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 wa...”
— Natascha Kampusch
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