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“There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History.”

Source: The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities

“The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.”

World Way Ignorance Destruction Victim Stupidity Arrogance

Author:Hamid Drake

“The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.”

Wells Shows Earth Mother Culture Religious Objects Destruction Machines Victim Possession Contemporary Ideology Toys Representation Mother Earth Contamination

Author:Jane Caputi

“This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.”

Ends Dangerous Danger Weapons Mass Destruction Victim Gas Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Dangerous Things Mustard Mustard Gas

Author:George Packer

“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.”

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.”

People Needs Stories Media Crime Television Messages News Destruction Victim Drinking Bars Consumers Staring My Time Frightened Pollution Passive Airports News Stories

Author:John Twelve Hawks

“There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)”

Children Self Sometimes Reason Happens Fall Violence Destruction Victim Finals Loyalty Surrender Recovery Awful Treatment Falling Apart Wrecks Self Destruction

Book:Boy in the Water: A Novel

Source: Boy in the Water: A Novel

“trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.”

Ifs World Way Done Force Blood Destruction Victim Blame Introducing Trust Me Erase Olaf

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”

Littles Government Form Poetry Hope Democracy Destruction Victim Admire Sarcasm Sarcastic Effectiveness Forms Of Government Admiring Complicity

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.”

Years Poverty Millions Worst Weapons Mass Destruction Claims Victim Hunger Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction World Hunger Hunger And Poverty Hunger Poverty

Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.”

War Weapons Mass Gun Destruction Victim Nine Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Ak 47

Author:Andrew Niccol