Massacre Quotes

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.”
― Pythagoras

“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“Le fondamentalisme se manifeste sous différentes formes et couleurs. Les croyances de 'la vérité absolue' et de 'la seule voie' du salut, en font partie.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion, for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again.

This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece Watership Down is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since The Wind in the Willows, but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Thanks for treating me like, you know, a person through all this shit. I know that isn't always easy. (Stark)
You do have a habit of pissing on other people's welcome mats. But, when a gentleman gives you a booty call to a massacre, it's easy to forgive. Ciao. (Candy)”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture, the wife, the children—everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is—shopping. Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn’t know what to do with himself—he’d go to church, start a revolution—something. Today you’re unhappy? Can’t figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping....
...If they would close the stores for six months in this country there would be from coast to coast a regular massacre.”
― Arthur Miller

“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God’s creations really serving God – or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can’t turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to atoms between the upper and nether millstones of Hitlerism and Stalinism. One of the most objective chroniclers is Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University. In his view, it is still 'Operation Reinhardt,' or the planned destruction of Polish Jewry, that is to be considered as the centerpiece of what we commonly call the Holocaust, in which of the estimated 5.7 million Jewish dead, 'roughly three million were prewar Polish citizens.' We should not at all allow ourselves to forget the millions of non-Jewish citizens of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and other Slav territories who were also massacred. But for me the salient fact remains that anti-Semitism was the regnant, essential, organizing principle of all the other National Socialist race theories. It is thus not to be thought of as just one prejudice among many.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or given away as servants, or rather slaves, for as long a time as the owners can deceive them; but I believe in this respect there is little to complain of.”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

“كَبَّلوهُم قَتَلوهُم مَثَّلوا بِذَواتِ الخِدرِ طاحوا بِاليَتامى
ذَبَحوا الأَشياخَ وَالزَمنى وَلَم يَرحَموا طِفلاً وَلَم يُبقوا غُلاما
أَحرَقوا الدورَ اِستَحَلّوا كُلَّ ما حَرَّمَت لاهايُ في العَهدِ اِحتِراما”
― حافظ إبراهيم

“The silence was doomed to be deafening, as it echoed the local hushing of a generation.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Destiny of Dreams: Time Is Dear

“If you wanna learn about tolerance, ask a person of color, How do you even tolerate the sight of white people, when the wrongs done to you by whites are unparalleled in history!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Every time, when you see people in Africa suffering, bleeding, being killed, kidnapped, slaved, raped, human trafficked and being poor. It is because of African leaders. In Africa we are being killed by our leaders.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“In Africa we are being killed by our leaders.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“War - the absurd massacre of the being.
In war; a people wins, while all humanity loses.”
― Corina Abdulahm Negura

“Every tree, every rock seemed to be watching.”
― Kate Grenville, The Secret River

“There is nothing more to tell of my tricks, of my danger deeds. All these are now behind me. It is not as a warrior that I now talk. I was riding alone, knowing what was ahead of me. Then the places through which I was riding came to my heart. It drew memories of old times, of my friends, when they were living on this river. My friends, my brothers, my sisters! All were gone! No tepees anywhere along the river. I was alone. No difference if I was hanged. I did not think I would die by the gun. The only way I could be killed was by hanging. That church Agent! That brave General Howard! They would see how I could die! I, a warrior, who knew the fighting! Keeping the religion of my ancestors, I knew not to fear.”
― Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, Yellow Wolf

“If only we felt the same way about british imperialism, confederate americanism, roman catholicism and hindu brahminism, as we do about Hitler's nazism! Recognition of atrocities is the first step towards the elimination of atrocities.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“we cannot prevail, said Walayat Shah. The jehad is dead. those who slew the women and the babes have slain it also. To slay in battleorin hot blood, that is well. ...but to slaughter captive women who have suffered the harshness of war and sorrow, and have been robbed thereby of all strength andn will, is a deed to blacken the sun! I will fight no more against the feringhis, since God can no longer be on our side.”
― M. M. Kaye

“Dusk had fallen, and shadows loomed larger than life. An eerie mask of quiet enveloped the houses like some foreboding fog. Anyone hiding within nearby walls hardly dared to breathe, fearing getting dragged from their homes and added to the forced deportation march.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin

“No other "civilized" people have done more damage to the world than the Europeans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“تحولت مع كتيبتي لأدوات حصد للأعضاء والرؤوس وحتى الصرخات، كان منظرًا رهيبًا أن ترى الآلاف من الوجوه يجرون حولك وأفواههم متسعة تصرخ كما لم تصرخ قبل اليوم، كأن الموت غيوم قد حلت عليهم فيحاولون الهرب من كل قطرة.”
― Ahmed Ezzeldien, كازارشان: أمنيات محارب

“Коли почнеться війна
Ваші брати можливо настільки зміняться
Що не можна буде впізнати їхніх облич.
Але ви мусите лишатись собою.

Вони підуть на війну, не
Як на бійню, але
Як на серйозну роботу. Всі
Їх забудуть.
Але ви мусите нічого не забувати.

Спирт литиметься вам у горлянку,
Як і всім іншим.
Але ви мусите лишатися тверезим.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Похвала діалектиці

“We tried to run," Louise Weasel Bear said, "but they shot us like we were a buffalo. I know there are some good white people, but the soldiers must be mean to shoot children and women. Indian soldiers would not do that to white children.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“World Poachers (Sonnet 1502)

The western alliance didn't fight Hitler
because he tortured the Jewish people,
they fought him because he was't gonna
show anyone any special consideration.

Jews were never the focus of World War 2,
It was about the invaders being invaded.
Lo and behold, Nazis are the villain,
though England, Belgium, France, Spain
and Portugal caused far worse damage!

If you feel one way about Hitler,
and another way about Churchill,
your opinion is of no consequence,
living on a whitewashed dunghill.

Rushmore is a monument of massacre,
Buckingham is a palace of plunderers.
Till you denounce all atrocious heritage,
You're just animal heir to world poachers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Jews were never the focus of World War 2, it was about the invaders being invaded. Lo and behold, Nazis are the villain, though England, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal caused far worse damage!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Come here now, sit down, and listen:
the ghosts are here to testify."
—"Origin of a Disaster”
― Jeddie Sophronius, Interrogation Records: Poems