#atrocity

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity. ↗

— Michael Jeffery

#atrocity #collectively #evening #evening news #feeling

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. ↗

— George Steiner

#easily #lies #life #resume #saturated

My mother kept calling me out of myself. She wanted to show me a picture, the first picture from the slave-ship exhibition. ‘This is unbelievable,’ she said. ‘Myra, you have to see this, this is unbelievable.’ I cringed at how fast she was talking. Why unbelievable? This all actually happened! Why is this all so hard to believe? ↗

— Tamara Faith Berger

#faith

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#ideology #ideology

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. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#photography #war-photography #photography

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell. ↗

— Frank Miller

#attacked #burn #country #hell #i

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#am #atrocity #between #cause #disaster

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#belief #believer #causes #faith #i

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. ↗

— John Scott

#atrocity #capable #deceit #immense #love