Jodie Foster Quotes

I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

It has always worried me that certain men of the Church have not understood that torture is never humane or Christian.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

… a disgrace to the human race.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

No conditions justify torture.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

The very word torture is a disgrace to the human race.