Massacres famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
-- Alexander Cockburn

#Past #Keys #Massacres
I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#Responsible #Investigation #Massacres
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
-- Hassan Nasrallah

#Veto #Massacres #Council
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Victory #Survivor #Massacres
Deir Yassin massacre was not only necessary, but without it the state of Israel could not have emerged.
-- Menachem Begin

#Israel #Massacres #States
The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.
-- Michel Chossudovsky

#War #Economic #Massacres
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
-- Philip Roth

#Battle #Age #Massacres
The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war..
-- Theodore Roosevelt

#War #Crime #Massacres
Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.
-- Valery Bryusov

#Awful #Genocide #Massacres

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
What I try to do is to make your face look like it did when you were younger. I always tell people it's not just about filling in the lines, but re-creating the shape of your face as it was in your early- or mid-twenties. People see the lines as they age but they don't see how their shape is changing. I think it's all about restoring the contours. You can fill in a line and it makes you look a little better, but it doesn't make you look younger.
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.
I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.
I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichÃ©s of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal ***** and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.