Atrocities Quotes - Page 10

• scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

  Steve Irwin

  Lying, Past, Exposed

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.211, Penguin

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• All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.

  Edward Said

  Men, Order, Justice

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Rights, People, Holocaust

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• What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.

  James Mattis

  Marine, Groups, Example

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, India And Pakistan, Kashmir

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Worst

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.

  Colin Dexter

  Running, Jobs, Tragedy

  Source: strandmag.com

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• If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.

  Derrick Jensen

  Home, Waiting, Wish

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.375, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.

  Scott Anderson

  Christian, Religious, War

  Scott Anderson (2014). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.234, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

  Susan Sontag

  Firsts, Surprise, Shock

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

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• [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

  Brother, Government, Citizens

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• 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

  Eye, People, Care

  Lisa Shannon (2010). “A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman”, p.315, Seal Press

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• Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Home, Differences

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Black, Liberty, World

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

  Erich Fromm

  Baby, Real, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Soil, Revolution, Prepared

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• Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

  Conrad Black

  Christian, World, Persecution

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• The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.

  Sam Harris

  Men, Media, Perfect

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Giving, Mad, Alternatives

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Issues, Abuse

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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