Atrocities Quotes

Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

— Yitzhak Rabin

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity

— Lord Kitchener

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

— Terence McKenna

“I am the center of an atrocity.”

— Sylvia Plath

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

“God, forgive those whose atrocities are so great-- I will not.”

— Landon Parham

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.”

— Helen Fisher

“Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.”

— Brian Rathbone

“Hold just enough ego to be a man of your word, and to stand against evil mobs who force the absurd.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Paula Marantz Cohen

“But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.”

— Timothy Snyder

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

— Nas

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can…

— Steven Pinker

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

— Steve Irwin

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do…

— Tony Greig

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish…

— Dahr Jamail

More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads…

— Romeo Dallaire

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too…

— Erich Fromm

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people…

— Criss Jami

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw…

— Amy Goodman

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not…

— George Orwell

“My worry is that they will look down on our enemies. They have seen the Arabs in these mud towns and think…

— Nigel Seed

It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing…

— Damon Knight

Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military…

— Noam Chomsky

“There comes from this, then, at least a working definition of a soul: one’s capacity to sit with the mysteries of a…

— Omar El Akkad

I've been frankly very surprised at the intensity of our differences [with Russia]. I mean, between what appears to be hacking of…

— John Kasich

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

“The unvarnished horrors of modern warfare were on everyone's social media feeds now, had been for months, and the truly bleak thing…

— Angela Flournoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Thomas Paine

“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“In late February 2024 I talk to a friend of mine, a Palestinian Canadian author whose debut novel, rejected by many publishers,…

— Omar El Akkad

... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one…

— Robert Parry

Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to…

— Scott Anderson

“And another thing needs to be said. Nothing, absolutely nothing, in the weeks preceding Zero Day made it possible to predict it.…

— Anonymous

“Southerners. Such literate, civilized folk, such charm and cleverness and passion for living, such genuine interest in people, all people, high and…

— Wilton Barnhardt