Genocide Quotes

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision to avoid unpopular views from being criminalised.

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.

One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.

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.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.