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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. -- Clancy Brown
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. -- George Orwell
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. -- Ted Allen
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. -- Nas
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. -- Jan Schakowsky
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. -- Ron Wyden
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. -- Nelson Mandela
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
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
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. -- Abbe Pierre
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. -- Nelson A. Miles
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. -- Linda Chavez
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else. -- Walter Koenig
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. -- George Steiner
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? -- Tom Hayden
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. -- 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
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. -- Edgar Allan Poe
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. -- John Scott
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. -- Jan Egeland
We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated. -- Leo Tolstoy
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. -- Richard Engel
The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians. -- Alberto Gonzales
The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good. -- Adam Levine
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. -- Azar Nafisi
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. -- Desmond Tutu
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
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. -- Noam Chomsky
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil. -- Noam Chomsky
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities. -- Cynthia Ozick
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight. -- Wilbur Smith
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. -- Noam Chomsky
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Noam Chomsky
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities. -- Tate Taylor
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure. -- Noam Chomsky
Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities. -- Voltaire
All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception. -- Austin Scott
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. -- Joseph Heller
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past. -- Steve Irwin
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. -- Howard Zinn
His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name. -- Trent Reznor
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide. -- Robert Paul Weston
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution. -- Ho Chi Minh
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. -- Noam Chomsky
Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. -- Bryant McGill
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. -- Hunter S. Thompson
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. -- Chuck Palahniuk
There are always going to be Muslim atrocities! Whenever the media starts obsessing with ISIS, I think you're hiding something. -- Ann Coulter
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. -- Jean Harris
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
I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act! -- Imre KertÃ©sz
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
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 western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Vanna Bonta
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
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? -- Robert D. Kaplan
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
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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. -- Mitali Perkins
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them. -- Romeo Dallaire
Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close. -- Donald J. Boudreaux
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. -- Jim Fergus
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
Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves. -- Kristina McMorris
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. -- Gore Vidal
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy. -- Erich Fromm
Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. -- Noam Chomsky
[The Bytyqi Brothers were] American citizens and we have been seeking answers to why no one's been held accountable for these atrocities. [Family members] expect our government to do everything we can. -- Ben Cardin
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. -- Susan Sontag
We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities. -- Anthony Romero
I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people. -- Kola Boof
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. -- Jerry Vlasak
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning. -- Gao Xingjian
Religion is good, as it controls the people that don't have the intelligence to make worthwhile decisions. However, it could be debated as to whether this makes up for the atrocities committed by these people. -- Ryan Hofmeister
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities. -- Darren Shan

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