Robert Burns Quotes

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

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

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

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

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

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

'Game of Thrones' has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story's most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

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

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

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

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

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 fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

World history is tragic.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

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.

The cruelties committed against the Hottentots exceed everything that is said about it in Cape Town or what can be imagined.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.