Someone open to atrocity is far more dangerous than…

“...he was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave.”

— Wes Moore

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have…

— Steven Weinberg

“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799) Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of…

— Abhijit Naskar

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the…

— Mercedes Lackey

“He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches.…

— Brynn Chapman

“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was…

— Thomas Paine

“I am the center of an atrocity.”

— Sylvia Plath

“Is it not fear that drives atrocity? It is natural enough to hate our enemies. Of course it is. How could anybody kill another…

— David Ebsworth

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique…

— Benjamin Greene

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

— Frank Herbert

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

— Paula Marantz Cohen

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There…

— Roxane Gay

“In October 1944, after more than two years of butchery between the Germans and the Soviets, the Red Army finally crossed the frontier onto…

— Keith Lowe

“Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior, they become…

— Milan Kundera