Quotes about Atrocity

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright.

Disgust, horror and pity are emotions that our spectator could not really feel anymore. The sufferers, the dying and the dead, became such common place sights to him after a few weeks of camp life that they could not move him anymore.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said what it was. Possibly, to many of them, all it meant was the right to have money. Or get more of it.

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

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?