Atrocities famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
-- Azar Nafisi -
[The Bytyqi Brothers were] American citizens and we have been seeking answers to why no one's been held accountable for these atrocities. [Family members] expect our government to do everything we can.
-- Ben Cardin -
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.
-- Charles Bukowski -
As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod
-- Christopher Paolini -
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
-- Clancy Brown -
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
-- Conrad Black -
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the past: but tell me, what are our reasons for silence about atrocities still to come?
-- Damon Knight -
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.
-- Eric Hoffer -
3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.
-- Frank Miller -
Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
-- George Orwell -
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
-- George Orwell -
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
-- George Steiner -
None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.
-- Hannah -
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.
-- Ho Chi Minh -
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
-- Jan Egeland -
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
-- Jan Schakowsky -
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.
-- Jean Harris -
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.
-- Jim Fergus -
I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.
-- Jodi Picoult -
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
-- John Scott -
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
-- Joseph Heller -
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
-- Judith Lewis Herman -
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.
-- Learned Hand -
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.
-- Linda Chavez -
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.
-- Lynne Truss -
The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.
-- Mamata Banerjee -
What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity,
-- Masai Ujiri -
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
-- Michael Parenti -
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
-- Mike Newlin -
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.
-- Nelson A. Miles -
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.
-- Noam Chomsky -
It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
-- Oliver North -
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
-- Paula Marantz Cohen -
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world's greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.
-- Richard Weikart -
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
-- Samantha Power -
What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
-- Simon Schama -
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
-- Steven Pinker -
A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.
-- Suzanne Collins -
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
-- Ted Allen -
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
-- Tom Hayden -
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire -
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.
-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky -
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.
-- Dinesh D'Souza -
Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.
-- James O'Barr -
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.
-- Jeremy Corbyn -
I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch. Invisible threads.
-- Lisa Shannon -
War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.
-- Mike Hoffman -
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
-- Robert Paul Weston -
Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux -
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.
-- Ron Rash
