Best 215 quotes in «genocide quotes» category

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

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

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

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

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.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

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.

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

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

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

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

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

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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.

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

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

'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.

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

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

Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive health. So that's why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought.

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.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

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.

The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.