Atrocities Quotes
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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity
— George Bernard Shaw
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
— Michael Parenti
If patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.
— Helen Fisher
People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
— Judith Lewis Herman
What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity,
— Masai Ujiri
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.
— Bertrand Russell
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.
— Ho Chi Minh
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
— Mike Newlin
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.
— Brian Rathbone
The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.
— Mamata Banerjee
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
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
— John Prendergast
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
— Ron Wyden
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
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.
— Howard Zinn
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
— Robert Paul Weston
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
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
— Tom Hayden
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
So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
— Adam Levine
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
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.
— Noam Chomsky
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
— Joseph Heller
Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
— Sarah J. Maas
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
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
— Clancy Brown
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
There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
— Sydney J. Harris
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
— Desmond Tutu
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
— Jan Schakowsky
She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet.
— T. Kingfisher
The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.
— Katherine Paterson
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— Lynn Murphy
Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.
— Terry Brooks
No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.
— Walter Wink
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
— George Bernard Shaw
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God, forgive those whose atrocities are so greatI will not. — Landon Parham
When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.
— David Crossman
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
— Azar Nafisi
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
— Nelson Mandela
I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!
— Imre Kertesz
The focus should be on Indian atrocities in Kashmir, not on our support for the Kashmiri resistance.
— Husain Haqqani
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.
— Jean Harris
His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
— Trent Reznor
