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Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation. -- John Updike
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. -- Frank Herbert
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt. -- Calvin Trillin
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. -- Conrad Black
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. -- George Steiner
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on. -- Salman Rushdie
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. -- Edgar Allan Poe
When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together. -- Ving Rhames
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. -- Frank Miller
Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity. -- Michael Jeffery
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 bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity. -- Roxane Gay
People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.' -- Natasha Trethewey
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. -- John Prendergast
I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week. -- Adrian McKinty
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. -- Tommy Lee Jones
The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals. -- Ted Cruz
Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us. -- Don Lemon
As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will continue to fight this atrocity on behalf of the unborn, and I hope my colleagues will support me in doing so. -- Paul Broun
I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets. -- Sylvia Plath
Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity -- George Bernard Shaw
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. -- Mike Newlin
Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. -- Terence McKenna
What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity, -- Masai Ujiri
What can art really do in the face of atrocity? -- Simon Schama
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality. -- S.A. Tawks
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. -- Voltaire
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. -- George Bernard Shaw
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. -- Samantha Power
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. -- Chris Hedges
There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself. -- Sydney J. Harris
Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils. -- Christopher Titus
The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter. -- Mamata Banerjee
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. -- Michael Parenti
Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers. -- Benito Mussolini
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
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities. -- Benjamin Greene
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. -- Jeremy Corbyn
Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness -- Munia Khan
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War. -- Adolf Hitler
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit. -- Steven Pinker
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
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. -- Mercedes Lackey
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. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. -- Steven Erikson

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