Commit Atrocities Quotes

#1. Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?

Frank Herbert

#2. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Voltaire

#3. People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.

Voltaire

#4. 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

#5. Man can commit atrocities, or incite others to commit them, not because of a personality disorder, but because of his belief in ideas that provoke and justify atrocities.

Branimir Anzulovic

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

Voltaire

#7. I'll be a straitjacketed bookworm burrowed into the binding of an insane, homicidal book, staring helplessly out from the pages of my own life, as they're writ by someone else, and I'd commit atrocities that would damn a saint's soul.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

Heather Marsh

#9. When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing?

Patricia Briggs

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

Voltaire

#11. Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Voltaire

#12. 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

#13. Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

#15. To paraphrase Voltaire: if they can make you believe in their absurdities, they can make you commit their atrocities.

Voltaire

#16. 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

#17. Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humiliation handed out by those with power can be ominous. The link between humiliation and atrocity is often found.

Jonathan Glover

#18. The dead shook off their rust of living and seized up steel. Their lips quivered with the defiance of innocents, with manipulations of politicians and their interchangeable dreams, and with the insanity of thugs who don't even know for which parties they commit their atrocities.

Ben Okri