“Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.” — Brian Rathbone Copy Share Image
“Hold just enough ego to be a man of your word, and to stand against evil mobs who force the absurd.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.” — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me. — James O'Barr Copy Share Image
“Even with all of the evil ravaging the world today, one must trust that some people are still capable of doing good.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception. — Austin Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. — Nas Copy Share Image
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him,… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in… — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“They denied the obvious with the same boldness because all of them believed that harvesting rubber and making money was a Christian… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“The glow of the Mathnawî’s inspiration has never been extinguished in Bosnia, even as its people were forced to endure trying hardships,… — Emin Lelic Copy Share Image
“These men, we’ve been told, are like war criminals. It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It is America (or Israel) at war, not just any war, that disturbs the Left. That is why there have been few… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“The actor Richard Burton once wrote an article for the New York Times about his experience playing the role of Winston Churchill… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
“they will reflexively demand that somebody do something. The worst among us always see this as an opportunity for political gain. The… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A few years back, I had a long session with a psychiatrist who was conducting a study on post-traumatic stress disorder and… — Janine Di Giovanni Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past. — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“good men had committed the most unspeakable atrocities imaginable in the name of a cause.” — Ethan Cross Copy Share Image
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image