I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!
What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
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.
Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.
There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.
I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.
I've become more forgiving, even though I have no patience at all for denial, justification of wrong, rationalization. I've become virtually a pacifist, so I feel that no atrocity is ever justified. I've become more vigilant about evil. I think I recognize its seeds more quickly. I see its source.
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.
Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity
What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.
