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So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of… — Arundhati Roy
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead,… — Kurt Vonnegut
She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's… — Eva Ibbotson
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we… — Christopher Hitchens
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders… — Banksy
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies… — Kurt Vonnegut
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders… — Robert Ardrey
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday… — Emile M. Cioran
One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do.… — Jennifer Donnelly
Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!"… — Rick Riordan
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet? — Kurt Vonnegut
I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And… — Sylvia Plath
You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who… — Melina Marchetta
Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted was to leave… — Koushun Takami
But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath… — Gena Showalter
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my… — James Patterson
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris… — Khaled Hosseini
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything… — Andrea Martin
When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring… — Gary Bauer
And I realized that many of the people I was photographing might have been the very ones who had committed the massacres that I had… — James Nachtwey

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