Building Quote by Philip Gourevitch Download Open image “Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.” — Philip Gourevitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Community Community building Exercise Fitness Genocide Rwanda
“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again. — Tim Walz Copy Share Image
If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about?… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“The pygmy in Gikongoro said that humanity is part of nature and that we must go against nature to get along and have peace.… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“Like Leontius, the young Athenian in Plato, I presume that you are reading this because you desire a closer look, and that you, too,… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“…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 Copy Share Image
“As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world’s powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact, Mars is… — Philip Gourevitch 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
“An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?” — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.” — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“My definition of a good book is one that you would read for pleasure despite having no prior interest in the subject. The ostensible… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to police a… — Philip Gourevitch 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
“Colonisation is violence, and there are many ways to carry out that violence. In addition to military and administrative chiefs and a veritable army… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running,… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
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