Atrocities Quotes

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The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica… — Dahr Jamail
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready… — Derrick Jensen
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred… — Gabrielle Giffords
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so… — Charles Bukowski
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of… — Gary Yourofsky
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone… — Noam Chomsky
It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and… — Ramsey Clark
The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to… — Toni Morrison
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? — Tom Hayden
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. — Noam Chomsky
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and… — Nelson A. Miles
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. — Jean Harris
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land… — Scott Anderson
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie… — Susan Sontag
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them — Noam Chomsky
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of… — Chris Hedges
Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity — George Bernard Shaw
[The Bytyqi Brothers were] American citizens and we have been seeking answers to why no one's been held accountable for these atrocities. [Family members] expect… — Ben Cardin
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the… — John Dos Passos
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that,… — Karl Kraus

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