J. K. Rowling Quotes

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

I am not saying that killing innocent people is nice.… But at the same time, we must start with the innocent among the Muslims. There are millions of innocent people among us, while the innocent among you – and innocent they are – number only dozens, hundreds, or thousands, at the most...

I do not wish to sit at the same table with a bunch of torturers.

The danger that the massacres will surely ruin your state the same as it has destroyed those innocent Jewish victims, rather deepens my regret that you have till now not succeeded in suppressing fully the excesses

It is always unfortunate when the innocent become victims of the anger and hatred of leaders, especially in the name of religion.

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.