Atrocities Quotes
142 quotes by 120 authors
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Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in…
— Martin Scorsese
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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
— Voltaire
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Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.
— James O'Barr
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of…
— George Orwell
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We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of…
— Steven Pinker
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Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and -…
— Noam Chomsky
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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence…
— Noam Chomsky
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a…
— Noam Chomsky
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All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception.
— Austin Scott
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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
— John Prendergast
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Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country,…
— Richard Engel
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The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves…
— Linda Chavez
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I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is…
— Tony Greig
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Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up…
— Yuri Orlov
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Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity
— Lord Kitchener
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Here's your introduction to destruction & the hate sustaining me. Are we safer or in danger? Drowning in atrocities?
— Otep
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If only to meet in future are seriously, Now what excitement and courage, their strength of heart are likely to break even before God:If time…
— Mak_786
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