atrocity

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Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life. George Steiner

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. Steven Erikson

There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself. Sydney J. Harris

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. Lois McMaster Bujold

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. George Bernard Shaw

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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