Quotes About Atrocities

But a lesser evil is still an evil. Therefore one commits an evil act, and evil, besides staining those who commit it, generates further evil. Hannah Arendt has shown how the principle of the lesser evil, for example, a temporary collaboration with a wicked regime, has ended up allowing atrocities and terror of all kinds. According to her, acceptance of a lesser evil is a dangerous compromise that slides into acceptance of all evil.

Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of the Council of Europe.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

But yes, you can imagine, you must try. Nothing stands between us and atrocities but words, so there is no choice but to try and imagine.

The people of the city of Savannah within their collective conscience could follow previous examples in history and forgive the atrocities of actual slavery committed against slaves themselves. But what was it [the city] to do with the knowledge that children completely unaware of the greater ramifications of slavery were led to the Civil War slaughter in its name? How does one acknowledge with forgiveness such an unforgiving mutilation of one's own mind, body, soul, and legacy?

Perpetrators of human rights violations redefine morality and start believing that they can commit systematic murder and other atrocities "for the greater good." The distance between evil and sickness is not that great. The evil component of crimes against humanity is the moral failing. The sickness aspect is the defect in perspective, the distortion in mental processing that both precedes the evil and is intensified by it.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

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

They thought of themselves as pure and righteous. They had a kind of holy fervor about them, despite which—or perhaps because of which—they were capable of unholy atrocities.

in the 20th century, six times more people were killed by their own governments than were killed in wars.

One night I heard one of the refugees say, "There are atrocities that one should not speak about." "Why?" wondered another refugee. "I can't explain it to you." "You have to speak about everything, so that everyone will know what they did to us." "I'm not going to argue with you." "If we won't be witnesses, who will bear witness?" "They won't believe us, anyway.

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme.

The worst atrocities… Maybe half of them arose directly because the powerful had a monopoly or a near-monopoly on some key capability.

Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

The attack on truth and language makes the atrocities possible. If you can erase what has happened, silence the witnesses, convince people of the merit of supporting a lie, if you can terrorize people into silence, obedience, lies, if you can make the task of determining what is true so impossible or dangerous they stop trying, you can perpetuate your crimes.

Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate atrocities against my people all over the world," he accused the British nation-state—his nation-state. "And your support of them makes you directly responsible, just as I am directly responsible for protecting and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters.

Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people with any kind of moral or political immunization against violence, atrocity, or subservience to dictatorship.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.