Jonathan Glover Quotes

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

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

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

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?

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

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