Massacres Quotes - Page 3

• The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Depressing, Spring, People

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.150, A&C Black

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• My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, "Aaaahhh," and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Animal, Texas

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• But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

  Gena Showalter

  Party, Blood, Done

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.55, HQN Books

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• I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime.

  David Irving

  Thinking, Holocaust, Quality

  Source: thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com

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• Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.

  James Patterson

  Blood, Cities, Directors

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Hip Hop

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

  L. Frank Baum

  Fighting, Winning, Victory

  The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, January 3, 1891.

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• ... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars
  to escape writing of the worst thing of all--
  not the crimes of other, not even our own death,
  but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough
  so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem
  mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

  Adrienne Rich

  Freedom, War, Writing

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Country, Years, Europe

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• Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Believe, Islam

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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Struggle, Safe Haven

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, England, Beats

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• ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Turkeys

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Country, Hate, Mean

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• The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, Government, Asia

  Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

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• The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Atheist, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for freedom and has given this craving a folk expression which includes every soul in Israel, every single downtrodden pauperized soul!

  Berl Katznelson

  Pain, Heart, Israel

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• When you defile the pleasant streams,
  And the wild bird's abiding place,
  You massacre a million dreams,
  And cast your spittle in God's face

  John Drinkwater

  Dream, Nature, Bird

  John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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• According to the reports we have gathered, mostly from the refugees, it appears that around 10,000 people have been killed in more than 100 massacres. The final toll may be much worse.

  Geoff Hoon

  People, Finals, Tolls

  "Up to 10,000 buried in Kosovo's mass graves, British say". www.cnn.com. June 17, 1999.

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• All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

  Grant Morrison

  Dream, Children, Women

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• To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.

  James Boswell

  Country, Men, West Indies

  James Boswell (1874). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.239

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• I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Responsible, Investigation, Impunity

  "UN experts urge Iraq to establish the whereabouts of the seven missing residents of Camp Ashraf". dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, College

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

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• Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857.

  Robert V. Remini

  Insightful, Mountain, Events

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