August Friedrich Kellner Quotes

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

War dehumanizes everyone.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

Let the demonstrations continue and withdraw the policy. Let the Jews feel the people’s fury.

Everywhere Bulgarians had passed, one sees only blood, dishonor and ruin …. It is a refinement of cruelty which the imagination refuses to comprehend.

A more mischievous idea cannot exist, than that any degree of wickedness, violence, and oppression may prevail in a country, that the most abominable, murderous, and exterminating rebellions may rage in it, or the most atrocious and bloody tyranny may domineer, and that no neighboring power can take cognizance of either, or afford succor to the miserable sufferers.

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

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

There is too much hate in the world; too much hurt.

We are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

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

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

Hate is the father of all evil.

Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.