Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

In order to endure death and horror one tends to kill ones own humanity, which is a much greater danger than not being able to bear it.

Images of dead children are so excruciating that we are now well trained to short-circuit our emotional responses to move from horror to suspicion to indifference.

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself. I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not so prejudiced any more.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.