Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

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

Human beings can do some God-awful things to other human beings

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

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.

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.

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

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

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.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

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

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

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

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

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

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.