Atrocities Quote by Sydney J. Harris

Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity

— Lord Kitchener

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

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

— Frank Herbert

“Military ferocity is not a fixed quality of any race or culture, but a temporary condition that usually bears the seeds of it own…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

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

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of…

— Paul Harris

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned…

— Aldous Huxley

Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

— Robert Baer

“There are people that are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and…

— George Orwell