Best 215 quotes in «genocide quotes» category

You can't get to genocide without first visiting identity politics.

You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more. [...] My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land, I wish to be an old man here. [...] I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father [the President]. Though he were to give me a million dollars I would not give him this land. [...] When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us. [...] My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.

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

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

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.

If Barack Obama's policies, as he just put the new stages through into operation, if that policy is allowed, you're going to see, open, Hitler-style genocide applied to a large section of the population, who are considered "not fit to survive," "not fit to live"! Just like Hitler, "lives unfit to live.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide. You can quote me on that.

I used to teach dance lessons.

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.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

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

Nature abhors annihilation.

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

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

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

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