He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities. — Oliver North Copy Share Image
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fullfill prophecy. — Nas Copy Share Image
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide. — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
“But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The oak trees seemed as though they were playing instruments; here a gentle violin, over there two harps in harmony, flutes and… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes,… — Lisa Shannon Copy Share Image
“With the rum bottle empty, Marsh had moved on to the Guinness in the kitchen cupboard. After a bottle and a half,… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“Currently reading one of the many examples of the Japanese atrocities inflicted on other Asian- Pacific communities during World War II. Definitely… — Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas Copy Share Image
What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There were waves of genocide that overcame indigenous populations of Oceania and do we have a library of books or films to… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
“I do not know where Viktor and Rudolf were taken. I cannot find the records. I never Elisabeth or Iggie. It is… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
“I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts… — Jason K. Stearns Copy Share Image
What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
