It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities. — Oliver North Copy Share Image
We must never forget the atrocities of slavery as we continue to work towards equality. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are always going to be Muslim atrocities! Whenever the media starts obsessing with ISIS, I think you're hiding something. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. — Nas Copy Share Image
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in… — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“They denied the obvious with the same boldness because all of them believed that harvesting rubber and making money was a Christian… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“The glow of the Mathnawî’s inspiration has never been extinguished in Bosnia, even as its people were forced to endure trying hardships,… — Emin Lelic Copy Share Image
“These men, we’ve been told, are like war criminals. It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
“You are young, child. You have much to learn about the ways of the world-' 'Do not,' Rhys said with deadly quiet,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“I wish that Hochschild would come clean on the litany of other errors I catalogue in my essay: Conrad could not have… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“The violence that began in 1915 killed perhaps half the Armenian Christians in the region. Although the accumulated stories of massacre numb… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“In late February 2024 I talk to a friend of mine, a Palestinian Canadian author whose debut novel, rejected by many publishers,… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
