Quotes About Atrocity

No one outside of Africa would remember that from 1890 to 1910 the Belgian King Leopold II (who was viewed at the time in Europe and America as a "philanthropic" monarch) genocidally plundered the Congo, killing as many as ten million people.

The fate and future of social media news channel is in deep darkness the way the atrocity has increased of Govt and the manner in which free journalists are being framed in false charges. Mainstream media is enjoying bootlicking.

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

Sullivan and his army arrived at Genesee river, where they destroyed every article of the food kind that they could lay their hands on. A part of our corn they burnt, and threw the remainder into the river. They burnt our houses, killed what few cattle and horses they could find, destroyed our fruit trees, and left nothing but the bare soil and timber.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation… surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

The European habit of indiscriminately killing women and children when engaged in hostilities with the natives of the Americas was more than an atrocity. It was flatly and intentionally genocidal. For no population can survive if its women and children are destroyed.

But to see the ovens into which humans were fed was enough to implicate the high culture of Europe; its value was drawn into question once it was suspected that such a culture had culminated in Dachau and Auschwitz. (Page 451)

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

What is any war but a massacre?

In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.

Here, though, the police do not exist to protect and serve. They exist to maintain terror through unimaginable atrocity.