The bloodiest tragedies in the world have been acted on…

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

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

Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced…

— Robert V. Remini