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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people. -- Jennifer Donnelly
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? -- Emile M. Cioran
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? -- Emile M. Cioran
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. -- Michel de Montaigne
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. -- Mark Twain
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. -- Paul Valery
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. -- Ed Markey
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances. -- Atifete Jahjaga
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre. -- Mark Twain
The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion. -- Johann Most
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. -- Antonio Tabucchi
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. -- Daniel Craig
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. -- Pythagoras
Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre. -- James Fenton
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands. -- Andre Gide
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist. -- Hassan Nasrallah
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. -- Dick Gregory
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts. -- Clara Zetkin
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. -- Tom Lantos
It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time. -- Michael Haneke
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre. -- Alexander Cockburn
We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed. -- William James
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet? -- Kurt Vonnegut
Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom. -- Phillip Adams
There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians -- Dennis Prager
Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? -- Justine Bateman
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. -- M.F. Moonzajer
I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day. -- Herman Melville
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. -- Desmond Tutu
In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA. -- Bryant McGill
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more. -- Elia Kazan
Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do. -- Valery Bryusov
Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction, -- Pope Francis
You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them? -- Melina Marchetta
The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives. -- Michel Chossudovsky
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people. -- Andrea Martin
Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die? -- Christopher Titus
It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably. -- Elie Wiesel
According to the reports we have gathered, mostly from the refugees, it appears that around 10,000 people have been killed in more than 100 massacres. The final toll may be much worse, -- Geoff Hoon
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? -- Robert Ardrey
I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres. -- Juan Manuel Santos

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