Atrocities Quotes

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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil… — Lois McMaster Bujold
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. — Jan Schakowsky
No regrets. Never never any regrets. Everything has been an experience and has led to me now. Everything has been important and essential. Fear... I'm… — Brandon Boyd
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can… — Martin Gardner
What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape… — Robert D. Kaplan
What can art really do in the face of atrocity? — Simon Schama
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us… — John Scott
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural… — Abbe Pierre
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse,… — Jim Fergus
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is… — Judith Lewis Herman
You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family… — Anne Stevenson
Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up… — Lauren Willig
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done… — Damon Knight
"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them… — Bartolome de las Casas
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human… — Jan Egeland
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation… — David Irving
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to… — Richard Weikart
I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on… — Ralph Steadman
Literature for meâ€¦ tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories,… — Geoff Ryman

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