Atrocities Quote by Azar Nafisi

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry,…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

— Jane Rule

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

— Frederick Lenz

It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be…

— Damon Knight

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

— Jose Bergamin

We need to, as a society, collectively, unequivocally denounce any time innocent lives are lost.

— Jagmeet Singh

“I am afraid, my friends, that the ugly chapters of genocides and the deep-rooted history of persecution in the Middle East will last longer…

— Widad Akreyi

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy,…

— James Salter

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

— Irving Howe

Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction,…

— Bill Joy

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

— Samantha Power

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson