Genocide Quotes

“White men are the apex predator of earth.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To kill one Jew is to kill the whole world.

— Kyle Steele

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

— Raphael Lemkin

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

— Stephen Evans

“WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!”

— Widad Akrawi

“UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS”

— Widad Akrawi

I am ashamed of my nation.

— Djemal Pasha

Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes

— Jose Angel Gutierrez

The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return.

— Mona Sahlin

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

— Dr. Seuss

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

— Rob Brezsny

“The indictment introduced a new word to the English language – ‘genocide”

— Ann Tusa

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

— Etgar Keret

“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”

— Henry Clay

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“against genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Perhaps the sentiment was best expressed by noted Holocaust”

— Hourly History

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth…

— Anatole France

“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its…

— Toni Morrison

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

— Joschka Fischer

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

— Robert Paul Weston

“Strain on the community -- That's a ridiculous arguement. Then nobody in the world should have children. I think asking people not…

— Rebecca Lee

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

— Desmond Tutu

“No badge can baptize brutality, no holy water can bleach blood stains – the land remembers the salt of tears of every…

— Abhijit Naskar

Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the…

— Judith Butler

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are…

— Michael Ignatieff

“If the question is ‘How do we stop enormous evils in the world?’ the answer is, unfortunately, quite frequently ‘War.’ Nazi and…

— Dennis Prager

“It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious:…

— A.E. Samaan

We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of…

— George H. W. Bush

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is…

— Hannah Arendt

“...But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can…

— Timothy Snyder

Southern Kordofan is not a disputed territory. It is, and will remain, in the north, where the Nuba Mountains are. People believe…

— Rebecca Hamilton

“It must be the duty of racial hygiene to be attentive to a more severe elimination of morally inferior human beings than…

— Konrad Lorenz

The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the…

— Noam Chomsky

“{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to…

— John Rucyahana

“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody…

— Christopher Hitchens

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our…

— Kamand Kojouri

“That there is a silent genocide of women and girls in the homes, communities and just everywhere is not a new story.…

— Betty Makoni

“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian…

— Noam Chomsky

“Leaves of Ash (Divine Violence, Sonnet) You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your…

— Abhijit Naskar