Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic,… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“Who does not have a slaughter in their conscience? Man's history is just an endless list of atrocities and we're not through… — Matz Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“,,The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness (...) Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried". ,,Filk wisdom is filled… — Judith Herman Copy Share Image
I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Science and religion are both guilty of committing atrocities,” King Solomon continued. “They are not evil in and of themselves, but in… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Likewise to Saudi Arabia, where we just were selling another billion dollars worth of weapons, and we're not only selling the weapons… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do… — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage… — Benjamin Greene Copy Share Image
The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards,… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
![“I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/anonymous-1_ambition_i-do-not-say-that-there-is-no-glory-to-b_2344199.jpg)
![“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings… What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge…” quote by Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d06/nelson-mandela-248_america_if-there-is-a-country-that-has-committed_677335.jpg)
![“If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.” quote by Jeremy Corbyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fe/jeremy-corbyn-3212_atrocities_if-every-human-rights-atrocity-is-descri_1803692.jpg)
![“What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had…” quote by James Mattis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/390/james-mattis-9515_accused_what-concerned-me-was-that-james-mattis_1949662.png)
![“[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice…” quote by Philip Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10f/philip-berrigan-32591_atrocities_to-break-the-law-would-still-be-an-imper_1352309.jpg)
