After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Someone open to atrocity is far more dangerous than someone afraid of it.” — Michael R. Fletcher 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
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
“We must let love simmer, without being consumed by contempt, otherwise atrocity will never end, only switch sides.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges 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
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
Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the… — Michael Jeffery Copy Share Image
Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society,… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives… — Steven Pinker 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
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
“...he was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the one who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In October 1944, after more than two years of butchery between the Germans and the Soviets, the Red Army finally crossed the… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically,… — Brynn Chapman Copy Share Image
“My mother kept calling me out of myself. She wanted to show me a picture, the first picture from the slave-ship exhibition.… — Tamara Faith Berger 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
“Leaves of Ash (Divine Violence, Sonnet) You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the idea of duty, are things that, when in error, can turn hideous, but – even though hideous… — Victor Hugo 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
“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799) Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The reality is this: Violence changes a person in permanent, profound, existential ways. Once you experience the horrible things one human being… — Ph.D Michelle Stevens Copy Share Image
“She soon learned that to survive atrocity is to be made an honorary consul to a republic of pain. There existed unspoken… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“In August 1944, the War Ministry in Tokyo had issued a directive to the commandants of various POW camps, outlining a policy… — Hampton Sides Copy Share Image
“No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Is it not fear that drives atrocity? It is natural enough to hate our enemies. Of course it is. How could anybody… — David Ebsworth Copy Share Image
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image