Atrocity Quotes

46 quotes by 44 authors

What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity, — Masai Ujiri
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in… — Eric Hoffer
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. — Michael Parenti
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very… — Tommy Lee Jones
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. — Edgar Allan Poe
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. — George Steiner
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. — George Bernard Shaw
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating… — Frank Herbert
I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets. — Sylvia Plath
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and… — Mark Twain
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then.… — Suzanne Collins
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If… — Steven Pinker
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended… — Steven Erikson
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things… — Mercedes Lackey
Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. — Terence McKenna
Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me. — James O'Barr
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
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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