Destruction Quote by Raphael Lemkin

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

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

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

— Jack Schwartz

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

Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous people in…

— Neil Macdonald

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

The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which…

— Arundhati Roy

“the convention, any one of five acts is considered genocide if “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

Genocide of all humanity. Genocide of your reality.

— Suicide Silence

The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals,…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz