{"quotes":[{"text":"Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["atrocity","created","dark","define","fragile","fragile-things","fragileness","green","leaves","limbs","made","redeem","rhyming","rhyming-verse","shade","shades","soil","tree","trees","victim","victims","vile","vileness"],"id":80549,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible. ","author":"Susan Sontag","tags":["atrocity","photography","war-photography"],"id":138470,"author_id":"Susan+Sontag"},{"text":"Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Issac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.","author":"Steven Weinberg","tags":["atrocity","belief","irrational","myth","myths","superstition"],"id":145182,"author_id":"Steven+Weinberg"},{"text":"Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemy's atrocities; and pity for the oppressed classes, when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads by a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a reign of terror.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["atrocity","vice","virtue"],"id":223666,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies. I mean that though, to take an instance, her atrocity stories have grown and grown until every kind of unpleasant story that has ever appeared in print has happened to her or her relations personally, she did have a bad shock initially and did see one, at least, of her relations killed. I think a lot of these displaced persons feel, perhaps justly, that their claim to our notice and sympathy lies in their atrocity value and so they exaggerate and invent.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["atrocity","exaggeration","lies","prejudice","sympathy","truth"],"id":286698,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["acknowledge","animals","art","artist","atrocity","avert","awaken","awakening","aware","awareness","comprehend","conscious","consciousness","corrupt","corruption","country","deforestation","disease","extinction","eyes","famine","feel","flood","gaze","genocide","global-warming","grasp","homelessness","human","humanity","humanness","hunger","important","kamand","kamand-kojouri","know","kojouri","look","look-away","media","nation","nature","news","notice","perceive","perception","perspective","politics","poverty","present","realise","realize","recognise","recognize","see","stare","starvation","transcend","transform","transformation","understand","violence","war"],"id":299492,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"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 pretence of religion; and under that mask, or that infatuation, committed the most unexampled atrocities that are to be found in the history of any nation. Of which I will state only one instance:When the Jewish army returned from one of their plundering and murdering excursions, the account goes on as follows (Numbers xxxi. 13): 'And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle; and Moses said unto them, 'Have ye saved all the women alive?' behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore, 'kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the women- children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for Yourse.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["atrocities","atrocity","bible","character","decency","detestable","executioner","horrible","horrid","jewish","moses","murder","plunder","read","the-bible","the-lord","villain","violation","wars-of-religion","wretch"],"id":306563,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims--the outcasts of society; or the opposite, people so blessed, others coveted their lives.","author":"Brynn Chapman","tags":["atrocity","historical-perspective","human-nature","injustice","mental-illness","salem","salem-witch-trials"],"id":381980,"author_id":"Brynn+Chapman"},{"text":"[To admit that college isn't for everyone] may sound élitist. It may even sound philistine, since the purpose of a liberal-arts education is to produce well-rounded citizens rather than productive workers. But perhaps it is more foolishly élitist to think that going to school until age 22 is necessary to being well-rounded, or to tell millions of young adults that their futures depend on performing a task that only a minority of them can actually accomplish.It is absurd that people have to get college degrees to be considered for good jobs in hotel management or accounting — or journalism. It is inefficient, both because it wastes a lot of money and because it locks people who would have done good work out of some jobs. The tight connection between college degrees and economic success may be a nearly unquestioned part of our social order. Future generations may look back and shudder at the cruelty of it.","author":"Ramesh Ponnuru","tags":["accounting","atrocity","college","degree","economy","education","education-reform","hotel","jobs","journalism","knowledge","modernity","money","science"],"id":402652,"author_id":"Ramesh+Ponnuru"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}