Atrocities Quotes · Page 4

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

— Noam Chomsky

There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

— Sydney J. Harris

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

— Mamata Banerjee

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

— Chris Hedges

“We must let love simmer, without being consumed by contempt, otherwise atrocity will never end, only switch sides.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.”

— Sarah J. Maas

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

— Imre Kertész

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

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future…

— Samantha Power

Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities…

— Noam Chomsky

To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a…

— David Rees

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be…

— Noam Chomsky

The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from…

— Alberto Gonzales

I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact…

— Lupita Nyong'o

The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the…

— Noam Chomsky

What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

That the Islamic State is guilty of horrific atrocities is common knowledge. But most Americans seem unaware of the human toll of…

— Patrick Leahy

Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs…

— Wilbur Smith

"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to…

— Bartolome de las Casas

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

Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are…

— Angelina Jolie

“Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder men for their…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“The more division the Iraqi authorities cultivated, the more we worked for inclusion. The more aggression they showed us, the more time…

— Widad Akreyi

The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that…

— Toni Morrison

“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“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

“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.”

— Saiom Shriver

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

— Adam Levine

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

“Turns out if you write about police violence and atrocities, if you wait a month, it'll happen again, so... That's America.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Unmarked and unrecorded graves are for criminals and victims of atrocities.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

“Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities”

— Voltaire

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

— Trent Reznor

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

— Michael Parenti

“She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet.”

— T. Kingfisher

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

— Jean Harris

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

— John Prendergast