Top Petra Quotes - Quoted Daily

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Murray Bookchin

Impossible, Petra, Unthinkable

"The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, p. 107, 2005.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Catharine MacKinnon

Genocide, Perpetrators, Postmodernism

Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.58, Harvard University Press

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Forgiveness, Chance, Perpetrators

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

Timothy Keller

Forgiveness, Grace, Perpetrators

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

Virginia H. Pearce

Perpetrators, Restitution, Remorse

Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations because I could document what happened that way.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Way, Accepting, Perpetrators

"Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.

Paula Coughlin

Military, Assault, Perpetrators