Century Quote by Elie Wiesel

I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories…

— Tobias Wolff

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

— Anne Waldman

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

— Anderson Cooper

“I am afraid, my friends, that the ugly chapters of genocides and the deep-rooted history of persecution in the Middle East will last longer…

— Widad Akreyi

“Yes, there are many, many things that can depress us. But there also are very many things that are fantastic about our world. Unfortunately…

— Dalai Lama XIV

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it…

— Atom Egoyan

Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned,…

— Wade Davis

“There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we…

— Neil Gaiman

“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s life itself.…

— Derek Rydall

“…the war about the genocide was truly a postmodern war: a battle between those who believed that because the realities we inhabit are constructs…

— Philip Gourevitch

“Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there…

— Percival Everett

“Given the obstacles to merging these fragile and diverse forms of storytelling into a single tale, it is, paradoxically, by venturing in the opposite…

— Karl Jacoby