Characteristics Quote by Hannah Arendt

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

— Andrea Dworkin

“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

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

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

— Raphael Lemkin

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and…

— Jerry Costello

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die…

— Elie Wiesel

Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the…

— Raphael Lemkin

The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

— Jack Schwartz

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be…

— Malcolm Fraser

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting…

— Philip Gourevitch