J. G. Ballard Quote

Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase — everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...

As quoted in "Age of unreason" by Jeannette Baxter in The Guardian (22 June 2004).