Care Quote by Richard A. Falk

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

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

Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No…

— Judith Butler

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

— Andrea Dworkin

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

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

— Jack Schwartz

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

— Rudolph Rummel

The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are…

— John Prendergast

“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

No one can demand that you be neutral toward the crime of genocide. If there is a judge in the whole world who can…

— Gideon Hausner

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