{"quotes":[{"text":"People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["atrocities","compassion","crises","crises-solution","crises-solutions"],"id":35296,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["absurdities","atheism","atrocities","barbarity","injustice","religion","skepticism"],"id":56007,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.","author":"Paula Marantz Cohen","tags":["atrocities","comfort","crime","criminals","mystery","news","shock"],"id":159545,"author_id":"Paula+Marantz+Cohen"},{"text":"We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["atrocities","ego","emotions","humanity","man","suffering","vulnerability"],"id":227026,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"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 equivalent of dying bravely in battle.","author":"Matthew White","tags":["atrocities","china","death","history","poet"],"id":230967,"author_id":"Matthew+White"},{"text":"Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder men for their politics than for their religion or their money, or that the courage to execute the deed is worse than the cowardice to excuse it. Let us not flinch from condemning without respite or remission, not only Marat and Carrier, but also Barnave. Because there may be hanging matter in the lives of illustrious men, of William the Silent and Farnese, of Cromwell and Napoleon, we are not to be turned from justice towards the actions, and still more the thoughts, of those whom we are about to study.","author":"John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton","tags":["apologetics","atrocities","crime","culpability","justice","propaganda"],"id":239714,"author_id":"John+Emerich+Edward+Dalberg-Acton"},{"text":"People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["atrocities","atrocities-in-the-bible","injustice"],"id":258623,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"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 innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the past: but tell me, what are our reasons for silence about atrocities still to come?","author":"Damon Knight","tags":["atrocities","reparations","restitution","sins-of-the-father","survival","unfairness"],"id":259095,"author_id":"Damon+Knight"},{"text":"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, what we see in the U.S. Media is the video war game. ","author":"Amy Goodman","tags":["america","atrocities","casualties","kids","media","war"],"id":276916,"author_id":"Amy+Goodman"},{"text":"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 Russian regime, the Kerensky interlude and bolshevism, Portuguese colonial rule in Angola and the horrors perpetrated by savage monsters of Holden Roberto’s “Liberation Front,” the Belgian administration in the Congo and the delirious atrocities of Gbenye and Mulele, British colonialism in Kenya and the Mau-Mau. We have to face the fact that man is not “good”—only the extraordinary man is, only the heroic saint or the saintly hero, while the noble savage belongs to the world of fairy tales.","author":"Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn","tags":["atrocities","democide","justice","original-sin","theology"],"id":293113,"author_id":"Erik+von+Kuehnelt-Leddihn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}