Atrocities Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Country, Wish, Hell

  "Frank Miller: Occupy Wall Street ‘Louts, Thieves & Rapists,’ Comic Writer Says". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.

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• 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

  Past, Failing, Century

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• 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

  Trying, Path, Tales

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• 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

  Party, Hammers, Moments

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.370, Scholastic Inc.

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• I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.

  G.A. Henty

  Revenge, War, Struggle

  G. A. Henty (2018). “By Pike and Dyke”, p.63, Ozymandias Press

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• 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

  Support, Harder, Justify

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• Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Abu Ghraib, Photograph, Shocked

  "EDITORIAL: Hunter S. Thompson went too far" by Ashley ODell, www.imediaethics.org. May 25, 2004.

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• There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Warfare, Greater

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• 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

  Long, Shock, Enjoy

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• Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the
  atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native
  Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
  that “the country will be in the hands of white
  Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
  The former being a little superior in education,
  as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Country, Hands, White

  Jon Lee Anderson (2010). “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Ordinary, Consciousness, Social

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.1, Basic Books

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• You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

  Anne Stevenson

  Jobs, Children, Dirty

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• 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

  Past, Silence, Survivor

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• "The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Discovery, Suffering, Tears

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• It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation - that in a few years time no one will believe this particular legend anymore. They will say, as I do, that atrocities were committed. Yes, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, but there were no factories of death. All that is a blood libel against the German people.

  David Irving

  Believe, Adventure, Blood

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• 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

  Holocaust, Followers, World

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• I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.

  Ralph Steadman

  Ambition, Names, Race

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• Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.

  Geoff Ryman

  Jesus, Honesty, Lying

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• The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.

  Dahr Jamail

  Cities, America, United States

  Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books

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• The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Police, Matter, Unfortunate

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• It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.

  Ramsey Clark

  Country, War, Atrocities Committed

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• The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

  Charles Kennedy

  Eye, Unique, Holocaust

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• Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

  Arthur Koestler

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  "A Challenge to 'Knights in Rusty Armor". The New York Times, February 14, 1943.

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• We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

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