"The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.Atrociti..."
- Judith Lewis Herman
"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother f..."
- Criss Jami
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire
"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 help..."
- Piero Scaruffi
"I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, wha..."
- Amy Goodman
"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. In..."
- Lisa J. Shannon
"We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!"
- Ramana Pemmaraju
"People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win."
- Stewart Stafford
"It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives."
- Paula Marantz Cohen
"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 is o..."
- Jonathan Glover