Best Genocide Qoutes
269 Genocide quotes by 221 unique authors
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We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named…
— Noam Chomsky
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Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who…
— Kim Harrison
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The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis,…
— Paulo Coelho
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If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly…
— Eric Greitens
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But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are…
— Chris Bohjalian
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Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.
— Rudolph Rummel
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I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the…
— Desmond Tutu
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Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.
— Dith Pran
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The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took…
— Dorothy Day
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Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
— Jonathan Haidt
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Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
— Janine di Giovanni
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Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always…
— Wole Soyinka
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Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
— David Harsanyi
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One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the…
— Michael Specter
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In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United…
— Noam Chomsky
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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
— Chris Bohjalian
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You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.
— Tim Walz
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Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
— Stephen Kinzer
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Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one…
— Michael Ignatieff
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There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by…
— Niger Innis
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