When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and…

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

— Noam Chomsky

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people…

— Jennifer Donnelly

As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding…

— Arundhati Roy

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of…

— Alexander Cockburn

“Don’t work for the survivors or architects of massacres. You’ll live just long enough to regret it.”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think…

— Stephen King

Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the…

— Mark Twain

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime…

— Albert Camus

She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and…

— Eva Ibbotson

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

— John Drinkwater

We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

— Bill Shankly

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their…

— Jacob Bronowski

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

— Ed Markey

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey