Atrocities Quotations

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

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

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

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional, and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in L.A. and not bring them home.

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.

Simon Wiesenthal was an individual who made sure we didn't forget the atrocities visited on us just because of who we are and he made sure the individuals responsible were brought to justice. For that, the Jewish community owes him a great deal of gratitude and respect.

No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his successors. But the retelling of 70 years of grisly facts leaves little doubt that what we face today in Soviet communism is, indeed, an 'evil empire'.

If the trial does not go forward as planned, (the U.N. Security Council) may revert to an international tribunal, ... It is essential that those who committed the atrocities be brought to justice.

Our hope is that the archive will be a resource so enduring that 10, or 50, or even 100 years from now, people around the world will learn directly from survivors and witnesses about the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Our fear is of course of more attacks, until we succeed in tracking down the gang which committed the atrocities on Thursday and that's why the No. 1 priority ... has to be the catching of the perpetrators.

We were hoping that the Europeans would denounce Israeli atrocities against our people. Unfortunately, they have linked aid to the needy and refugees to political considerations.

Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basically it is in the hands of Indonesia.

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.

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

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

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

There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanians. We are alarmed at the reports. We are putting a great deal of resources to check them out.

There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanian civilians in Kosovo. We are extremely alarmed by these reports.

We've not had reports over the last 10 days or so that we used to have of murders or other atrocities almost every day. It is slowly getting better, but most Serbs are gone.

What happened that day, the rescue attempts and the generosity, what they've done, that's what should be there, period, ... Not talking about atrocities or blame America.

We don't think that Mr. Sharon is coming to plant roses all around the road between here and Jerusalem. He is going to come with more aggression, with more atrocities against our people.

The responsibility for yesterday's atrocities in Madrid is determining the very-near fate of the dollar.

These monuments are playing a role of textbooks that helps Japanese people learn about the wartime history and Japanese aggressors' atrocities over the Chinese people,

The story most people around the world have is that the Americans are up to their old tricks - committing atrocities and lying about it. And that's completely incorrect.

as an absurdity and an obvious effort to divert attention from the atrocities and other outrageous activities being perpetrated by the regime in Kosovo.

The bus boycott was instrumental in the desegregation in the community. It is unbelievable the atrocities people were living with in that day. The book tells of some of the harrowing experiences they had but I believe most of the boycotters knew the risk of their participation.

This in not just a condemnation of the Holocaust. It is a condemnation of all the atrocities in the past and a reminder that terror still surrounds us.

It wasn't done for a malignant reason. It was only done to bring attention to the atrocities of which we were experiencing in a country that was supposed to represent us.

It's about sitting faithfully in England while thousands of miles away terrible atrocities are being committed in our name.

It's a powerful way for people to know that we have not forgotten. It's reassuring to see so many people turn out to say they have not forgotten the atrocities of 1989.

That means a criminal has done atrocities but escaped unpunished, and they would not be able to learn the lesson, ... China and other Asian countries have to express their indignation to Japanese moves in very, very strong terms.

The atrocities that were committed by myself and those who stand accused are unforgivable acts. The city of Los Angeles had, and has, a right -- among other things -- to a fair and just system of policing.

The atrocities are ripping apart families of not only Iraqis but Americans as well.

Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country, and Syrians should rightly demand that the perpetrators be held accountable.

Not forgetting is not enough. We must stand up and speak out when atrocities occur.

It's totally unremorseful and unrepentant about Japan's past atrocities and aggressions against other Asian people.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

In the short term, the most pressing issue is the continued existence of predatory armed groups, ... Although there is no easy military solution to this dangerous phenomenon, those guilty of the worst atrocities and human rights abuses -- and especially those guilty of genocide -- must not be allowed to escape unpunished.

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

Clearly there have been atrocities going on. Once we have achieved a situation where Yugoslav forces have withdrawn we cannot leave a humanitarian vacuum in Kosovo.

It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

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.

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

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

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

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.

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

I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

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.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

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

All these years in the Highlands & Islands, nobody has delved into this area. People have written about it and hinted at the atrocities but we're going to talk about it. We're not going to hold back from the truth.

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

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

War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.

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

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

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.

I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.

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

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.

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

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

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.

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.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.