Atrocities Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Loyalty, Unique, Hype

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• Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

  Tom Hayden

  Journey, Hanoi, Should

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• 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

  Race, White, Savages

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

  Clancy Brown

  Color, Political, Belief

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Religious, Lying

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• 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

  Distance, Gone, Ruins

  "Paperback Q&A: Cynthia Ozick on Foreign Bodies". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• 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

  Men, Noble Man, Atrocities Committed

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• 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

  Matter, Stills, Stunned

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". Science Friday with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Religious, Faith Religion

  Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

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• 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

  Tools, Mass, Knows

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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

  People, Car, Groups

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• I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Kids, Thinking

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• When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1125, First Avenue Editions

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• If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Believe, Absurdity

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• As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Believe, Evil People

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• The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

  Ron Wyden

  Ideas, Ridiculous, Terrorism

  "Amid furor, Pentagon kills terrorism futures market". www.cnn.com. July 30, 2003.

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• In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.

  Mike Newlin

  Athlete, Athletic, Quintessence

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• The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

  Michael Parenti

  War, Firsts, Crime

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• ...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

  Marilyn Manson

  Fear, Blue, Long

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• Do books about the Holocaust make us think, "Oh well, there was nothing we could've done to prevent that or prevent it from happening again"? Of course not. It makes us angry and determined to stop such atrocities.

  James Dashner

  Book, Thinking, Holocaust

  "The Maze Onscreen: Q&A with 'The Maze Runner' Author James Dashner". Interview with Tom Blunt, www.signature-reads.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

  John Updike

  Slave, Creation, Emperor

  John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.476, Knopf

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• Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Made, Absurdity

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• What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.

  Masai Ujiri

  Absolutes, Happenings, Nigeria

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