Quotes About War Atrocities

#1. As it turns out, the atrocities we suffered were committed by none other than ourselves, and the inner sense of guilt and fear sparked by this incident helped form the roots of the frantic hatred that thrives to this day. (2007: 9)

Hwang Sok-yong

#2. Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.

Mo Hayder

#3. Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.

Andie MacDowell

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

Noam Chomsky

#5. Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.

Dario Spini

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.

Walter Wink

#9. 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

#10. The atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom of a heap of atrocities committed by all sides.

Howard Zinn

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

Howard Zinn

#14. Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

Marie Colvin

#15. Only Dunlop has seen more rubber than I have

Dominik Hasek

#16. 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

#17. Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

Steve Allen

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Michael Parenti

#21. Magrathea itself disappeared and its memory soon passed into the obscurity of legend. In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of

Douglas Adams

#22. Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#23. The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

Todd Stocker

#24. Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism ... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.

Richard Weikart

#25. Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Richard Stallman

#26. I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

Amy Goodman