Chris Jordan

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.

American Artist

Joshua Oppenheimer

I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.

British Director

Lynne Truss

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

English Writer

Matthew Heineman

In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme.

Algerian Director

Wamiqa Gabbi

Obviously... I feel it is important for women as well as men. Learning any kind of martial arts will help them when faced with atrocities. There are many incidents where men are also attacked.

Madeline Brewer

None of the atrocities in 'The Handmaid's Tale' are pure fiction. Everything Margaret wrote was something that has happened somewhere in the world to human beings.

American Actress

Azar Nafisi

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Iranian Writer

Conrad Black

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

British Businessman

George Steiner

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

American Critic

Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

French Writer

Use 'atrocity' to describe actions that shock people due to their extreme cruelty.

Extreme Wickedness

'Atrocity' implies actions that go far beyond regular immoral deeds and cause suffering.

Beyond Immorality

In most contexts, 'atrocity' refers to serious acts of violence against humans.

Violent Connotation

Used hyperbolically, 'atrocity' can express strong dislike for something generally considered minor.

Hyperbolic Disdain

Calling something an 'atrocity' may reveal more about personal taste than objective quality.

Subjective Judgment

In casual speech, 'atrocity' can be an exaggeration for something one finds very unpleasant.

Colloquial Exaggeration

 commission is they fundamentally wanted two things they wanted the truth about what happened so they could look back in order to move forward and they wanted acknowledgment they wanted somebody in a position of power to look at them and say an unspeakable atrocities was visited upon you and we in the name of

Building community in...

 of affected soldiers— halting its ability to make blood cells. Despite these awful effects, it gave scientists an idea. Cancer cells share a characteristic with bone both replicate rapidly. So could one of the atrocities of war become a champion in the fight against cancer?

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 I started learning about slavery, for I had certainly known it existed in the world, but not to such a degree. After we finished talking, I felt so horrible and honestly ashamed at my own lack of knowledge of this atrocity in my own lifetime, and I thought,

Lisa Kristine: Photos...

 terrible atrocities had happened in the society. And people came together focused only on those two truth and reconciliation. There was no road map. No one had ever done anything like this before. And in this atmosphere, where the only guidance

David Logan: Tribal...

 sense of the scale of the atrocities of partition american photojournalist margaret burke white who had just covered world war ii and the holocaust likened the streets of india to the gates of the buchenwald concentration camp

The Triumph and Tragedy...

 except insofar as it’s helpful or harmful to maintaining power. For instance, princes are told to consider all the atrocities necessary to seize power, and to commit them in a single stroke to ensure future stability.

What “Machiavellian”...

 I was 17. So these experiences gave me a sharp awareness of the atrocities and injustices in the world. And I had a strong desire -- a very keen, deep desire -- to right wrongs and help the victims of oppression.

Inside the mind of a...

 about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.

Chris Jordan: Turning...

 that if we are to bring about an end to the world's worst atrocities, we have to make it such. There has to be a role -- there has to be the creation of political noise and political costs

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 its scale only highlights the nearly life-sized atrocities on display. Some possible relief comes from a lamp held tightly by a ghostly woman reaching out her window.