Atrocities Quotes · Page 4

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

— Chris Hedges

“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

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

— Imre Kertész

“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

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

— Michael Parenti

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

— Voltaire

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in…

— Linda Chavez

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

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

— Alberto Gonzales

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

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of…

— Frank Miller

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the…

— Martin Scorsese

We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in…

— Lundy Bancroft

Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human…

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising…

— Richard Dawkins

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

The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions…

— Hassan Nasrallah

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Toni Morrison

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

— Widad Akreyi

“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

In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

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

— John Prendergast

“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

“Staying silent in the face in the face of horrible atrocities is just as bad as actually committing them," Aren said.”

— Avenged Amy Tintera

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

— Azar Nafisi

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

— Ho Chi Minh

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.”

— John Updike

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

— Jan Schakowsky

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

— Clancy Brown