Genocide Quotes

269 quotes by 225 authors

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
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. — Jean Baudrillard
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
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
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
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
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. — Spiro T. Agnew
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
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
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. — Noam Chomsky
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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

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