27 Quotes About Atrocity

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

My mother kept calling me out of myself. She wanted to show me a picture, the first picture from the slave-ship exhibition. ‘This is unbelievable,’ she said. ‘Myra, you have to see this, this is unbelievable.’ I cringed at how fast she was talking. Why unbelievable? This all actually happened! Why is this all so hard to believe?

It was teeth and talons and fire and mustard gas, it was ghosts scorched into Hiroshima streets, showerheads pouring poison into tiled rooms, and a grasp that twined itself around his own bones, a tongue that licked for marrow in his own spine, and a hunger he could feel in his own stomach.

We can slow this, we can stop it, we can prevent this atrocity from happening in the country.

This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact. The device has similarities to the device that exploded in Brixton with terrible consequences last Saturday.

This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact, ... The device has similarities to the device that exploded in Brixton with terrible consequences last Saturday.

It's a really pristine place and any garbage up there is seen as an atrocity because someone had to haul it up there. It didn't get up there by itself.

fully reflect the Chinese people's great fury at the atrocity of the embassy attacks by NATO and the Chinese people's strong patriotism.