Compelling Quote by James Nachtwey

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

— Simone Weil

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

— Simone Weil

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that…

— Marianne Williamson

“If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still publishing them at all? Is…

— Suzy Kassem

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that…

— Allyson Schwartz

“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

— Christopher Pike

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

— Dorothy Parker

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

— I. F. Stone

“We have the power to build a new consensus, which rejects killing as a method for achieving results. And we can look forward to…

— Nathan Winograd

History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali…

— Yukio Mishima

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

— Chuck Palahniuk