Atrocity Quotes

46 quotes by 44 authors

We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. — Mike Newlin
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities. — Benjamin Greene
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...… — Auberon Waugh
Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions… — Jay Kinney
Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not… — Harrison Ford
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about… — Oliver Stone
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. — Jacqueline Novogratz
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
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges
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
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
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
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
Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity — George Bernard Shaw
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
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. — Samantha Power
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still… — Learned Hand
3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn… — Frank Miller
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black

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