Genocide Quotes
269 quotes by 225 authors
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that…
— Chinua Achebe
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
— Jean Baudrillard
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
— Bob Beauprez
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish,…
— Marek Belka
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert…
— Benazir Bhutto
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and…
— Henry Bolingbroke
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to…
— James Caan
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
— Muhammad Ali
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
— Noam Chomsky
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Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States…
— Adam Schiff
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If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal,…
— John Howard Griffin
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The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole…
— Pope John Paul II
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the…
— Terry Brooks
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— Heinrich Himmler
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...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of…
— Pope John XXII
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Who Wrote These Genocide Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 269 Genocide Quotes, led by these top contributors: