Conflict Quote by John Mortimer

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

— Simon Heffer

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

“the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and…

— Howard Zinn

“My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral…

— Howard Zinn

“We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they…

— Tony Dovale

“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the…

— Albert Camus

The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in…

— John McCain

“ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING: HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE”

— Widad Akrawi

I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it…

— Lauren Oliver

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

— Lu Xun

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11.…

— George W. Bush

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

— Albert Camus