Genocide Quotes

269 Genocide quotes by 221 unique authors

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. — Joseph Stalin
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism. — Serj Tankian
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile… — Alvin Toffler
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
It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust,… — Mark Udall
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms… — Lech Walesa
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons,… — Denzel Washington
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust. — Simon Wiesenthal
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. — Simon Wiesenthal
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. — Jeremiah Wright
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when… — Sarah Vowell
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide. — Wallace Stegner
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn
But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog is saying, "Who… — Eddie Izzard
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. — Philip Gourevitch
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that… — Arundhati Roy
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top — Sarah Vowell
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary… — Sam Harris
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a… — Elie Wiesel
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.… — Nicholas D. Kristof
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for… — Umberto Eco
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the… — Tim Wise
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the… — Sam Harris
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. — Arundhati Roy

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