Combination Quote by Richard A. Falk

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision to avoid…

— Richard A. Falk

“...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

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

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 is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land,…

— Michael Ignatieff

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

— Andrea Dworkin

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

“Then as now, demonization of the victim is the necessary precondition for genocide.”

— Jonathan Kirsch

“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

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

— Steven Pinker

The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure,…

— James Orbinski

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

— Jack Schwartz