Quotes About Horrific

On September 26–27, 2014, scores of Iguala, Cocula, and Huitzuco police collaborated with Guerrero state police and federal police to carry out hours of horrific violence against unarmed college students, while the Mexican army watched from the shadows.

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.

So grizzly an act

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual - but it's never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It's horrific.

I myself have been the victim of some absolutely horrific speech throughout the years; I know how bad it can make you feel - and yet, I still believe firmly that no words directed at me could ever feel worse than having to worry about losing my right to use my own.

Huh." On occasion that's all I can say to the facts we've uncovered during our journey through the Underground project. The truth is frequently horrific. "The things we find in history are hard to understand sometimes

When reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.

Whatever had killed him, it hadn't been human. His face was gone, simply torn away. Something had ripped his lips off. I could see his bloodstained teeth. His nose had been torn all the way up one side, and part of it dangled toward the floor. His head was misshapen, as though some enormous pressure had been put upon his temples, warping his skull in.

Whatever may be noble and heroic in war is found in us, and whatever is evil and horrific in war is also found in us.

Violence at a distance was still horrific and should be felt just as deeply.

mind, human and inhuman, in a rapture of blood lust and violence, will be an existence more horrific

Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane.

The funny thing about Hell is that we assume it's obvious. Fire, brimstone. We'll be plunged into it by some horrific event in our lives. But the truth is, Hell can be as subtle as Heaven. He looked around. Sometimes we don't recognize we've wandered into Hell until it's too late.

On June 26, a thousand Jews were beaten to death in a garage. The SS arranged for locals to perform the massacre. They thought it might look distasteful if they carried it out themselves.

But as horrific as the disease itself was, public officials and the media helped create that terror—not by exaggerating the disease but by minimizing it, by trying to reassure.

There is no escape from the horror of horror.

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.

The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it's struggle, it's ugly, it's horrific, it's dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.