Agitation Quote by Edmund Burke

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

— Anonymous

In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of…

— Eugene Ionesco

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

— Ann Tusa

“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without notice unless…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well…

— Steven Pinker

I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We…

— Elie Wiesel

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality…

— John M Swomley

In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so…

— Amadeo Bordiga

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by…

— Peter Kropotkin

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

— Lenny Bruce

“Genocide" is an invidious word that officials apply readily to cases of victimization in enemy states, but rarely if ever to similar or worse…

— Noam Chomsky

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

— Helen Mirren