14 quotes found
“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch....”
“We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!”
“People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.”
“Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will h...”
“Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humiliation handed out by those with power can be ominous. The link between humiliation and atrocity i...”
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and carried on wars on the score or on the pre...”
“It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.”
“It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innoc...”
“There was no more reasonable sequitur between provocation and reaction in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews and the Nazis, the Armenians and the young Turks, the old Ru...”
“Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon's reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the poet's equiv...”
“People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.”
“People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.”
“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews and the Nazis, the Armenians and the young Turks, the ol...”
