Top 216 Atrocities Quotes & Sayings

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

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

Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

None of the atrocities in 'The Handmaid's Tale' are pure fiction. Everything Margaret wrote was something that has happened somewhere in the world to human beings.

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

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.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

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.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

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

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

If animal abusers aren't going to stop perpetrating these types of atrocities, they ought to be stopped using whatever means necessary. What we're starting to see is the implementation of that type of strategy.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire.

All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

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

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

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

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

In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

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

If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.

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

There are always going to be Muslim atrocities! Whenever the media starts obsessing with ISIS, I think you're hiding something.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

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.

When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and it was quite personal.

Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side. And I am no longer able to participate in the assumption that atrocities committed by remote control are less objectionable than those committed at arm's length. I am most concerned with American obstacles to peace because I am an American.

The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.

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.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

As an investigative filmmaker, I helped expose atrocities committed by ISIS against women and girls. They are evil, and we have to stop them.

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

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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

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

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.