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Jonathan Glover Quote: “The hardest – the part that’s hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one.” -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai.”

1. “The hardest – the part that’s hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one.” -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred.”

2. “Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?”

3. “A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “Above all, the sense of personal responsibility was reduced by the way agency was fragmented. Among the airmen who obeyed the order to drop the bomb, the many scientists who helped to make it, the President, the many political and military advisers involved in the decision, who killed the people of Hiroshima? No one seems to have felt that the responsibility was fully his.”

4. “Above all, the sense of personal responsibility was reduced by the way agency was fragmented. Among the airmen who obeyed the order to drop the bomb, the many scientists who helped to make it, the President, the many political and military advisers involved in the decision, who killed the people of Hiroshima? No one seems to have felt that the responsibility was fully his.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.”

5. “The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humiliation handed out by those with power can be ominous. The link between humiliation and atrocity is often found.”

6. “Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humiliation handed out by those with power can be ominous. The link between humiliation and atrocity is often found.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.”

7. “The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.”

8. “A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “Stalin’s Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stalin and even he was trapped by his fear of their desire to be rid of him. Everything he had to eat or drink had to be tasted by one of his colleagues first. Beria’s behavior at his death showed that his fear was only partly paranoia.”

9. “Stalin’s Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stalin and even he was trapped by his fear of their desire to be rid of him. Everything he had to eat or drink had to be tasted by one of his colleagues first. Beria’s behavior at his death showed that his fear was only partly paranoia.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “Some of the world’s violent conflicts are mainly economic, territorial or tribal. But many seem to come, at least in part, from conflicts between the belief systems of different groups.”

10. “Some of the world’s violent conflicts are mainly economic, territorial or tribal. But many seem to come, at least in part, from conflicts between the belief systems of different groups.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “If torture is permitted, it’s hard to imagine what isn’t.”

11. “If torture is permitted, it’s hard to imagine what isn’t.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.”

12. “Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.”

— Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover Quote: “The desire not to use disparaging terms for other groups can have its comic side, and is often dismissed as a product of ‘political correctness’. But the concern behind it is part of the growth of one of our central moral resources.”

13. “The desire not to use disparaging terms for other groups can have its comic side, and is often dismissed as a product of ‘political correctness’. But the concern behind it is part of the growth of one of our central moral resources.”

— Jonathan Glover

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