Quote by Jonathan Kirsch Download Open image ““Then as now, demonization of the victim is the necessary precondition for genocide.”” — Jonathan Kirsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!” — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“against genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Perhaps the sentiment was best expressed by noted Holocaust” — Hourly History Copy Share Image
“...great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.” — John Rucyahana Copy Share Image
As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of political leaders,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no surer way of infecting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Genocide is the foulest plague known to the world, and I offer you my apologies , that you have found yourself alone among us.… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear. These victims… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse of 'moral… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“The persecutorial impulse - 'the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings as imagined agents of corruption… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“...human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Once available, the inquisitorial toolbox could be put to use by any authoritarian regime with the will and the means to unpack and use… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“...free-associative sexual libel...is typical of the impulses of religious authoritarians to demonize all heretics by attributing to them every manner of outrage that a… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“All the weaponry and tactics that have been deployed in the war on terror are justified by precisely the same theological stance once invoked… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion that it… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“...the workings of the Inquisition did not fundamentally change over its six-hundred-year history. The Inquisition was a machine with interchangeable parts, just as its… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
