Atrocities Quote by John Dos Passos

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There…

— Roxane Gay

“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at…

— Yanis Varoufakis

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no…

— Frank Herbert

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

— Rebecca Hall

“I loathe the grading of tragedy and the jostling for pre-eminence amongst the bereaved, that most disgusting example of the disgusting habit of claiming…

— Catriona McPherson

In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see…

— Russell Smith

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news,…

— Donald Miller

“All humans were capable of atrocity. It was simply a matter of falling into a sequence of events that would drive them from timidity…

— Sean Platt

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after…

— Honore de Balzac

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Given the obstacles to merging these fragile and diverse forms of storytelling into a single tale, it is, paradoxically, by venturing in the opposite…

— Karl Jacoby

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

— Anderson Cooper