"Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity."
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"mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow."
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"Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians."
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"In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis."
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"A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance."
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"Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct."
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"None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history."
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"Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure."
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"Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed."
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"It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true."
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"This crazy ban on the seven states, where we can't accept immigrants, almost every analyst points out the obvious: It just increases the threat of terror. It lays the basis for terror. It's just like the atrocities in Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantanamo. They're the most fabulous recruiting techniques for Al Qaeda and ISIS."
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"Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was the war on South Vietnam which destroyed South Vietnam's rural society. The South was devastated. But now anyone who opposed this atrocity is regarded as having defended North Vietnam. And that's part of the effort to present the war as if it were a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam with the United States helping the South. Of course it's fabrication. But it's "official truth" now."
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"Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did."
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