Dark History Quotes

Paris. Toulouse. Malmo. Copenhagen. Brussels. Berlin. For most people, they are lovely cities where you might happily take a holiday. But for the world's Jews, they are something else, too. They are place names of hate.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history

The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The bodies of victims were ... the hangman’s property. Although obliged to sell the corpses of murderers to surgeons for dissection purposes, the executioner sometimes sold them back to the families if they offered a better price. It was often difficult to keep the body intact as the crowd would grab pieces as macabre souvenirs. On 18 December 1758, a riot broke out when the medics fought the family for possession of the victim’s body – however, the mob won and carried the corpse away in triumph. The hangman would also be allowed to cut up the rope that was used in the execution and sell bits off in the pubs on Fleet Street.

The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.

Men feared witches and burned women.

It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.

I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how 'Angel Of Death' came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don't say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.

Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.

All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots.'

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)

All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.