Atrocity Quotes · Page 2

We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.

— Mike Newlin

“My knowledge of this atrocity made it my duty to make something of it.”

— Annelisa Christensen

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

— Michael Parenti

“Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.”

— John Updike

“No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.”

— Sam Harris

“When it comes to reporting crimes committed by states considered friendly to the West, atrocity fatigue rapidly kicks in.”

— Angana P. Chatterji

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

— Chris Hedges

“We must let love simmer, without being consumed by contempt, otherwise atrocity will never end, only switch sides.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The best atrocity engineering is conducted, thought Albrecht, never so much by the participant, but by the enabler.”

— Kane X. Faucher

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage…

— Benjamin Greene

“...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

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next…

— Roxane Gay

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives…

— Steven Pinker

A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the…

— John Dos Passos

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no…

— Frank Herbert

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein…

— Steven Weinberg

“The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically,…

— Brynn Chapman

“Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior,…

— Milan Kundera

“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous…

— Clive Barker

“It’s as though not even that most basic level of imaginative thought had been admitted into consciousness to cause the slightest disturbance.…

— Philip Roth

“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

Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

— Christopher Titus

There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

— Sydney J. Harris