David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

David Bowie

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• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Amazing
  • Sense
  • Living

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

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Genocide

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

  

  Valery Bryusov
  • Stop
  • Awful
  • Genocide

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

  

  Jon Corzine
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Cry

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

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • History
  • Belief
  • Western

• Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Humanity
  • Meaning
  • Characteristic

• The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Modern
  • Invention
  • Genocide

• What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Genocide
  • Murderous
  • Antagonism

• Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of people because of their ethnic makeup or because of their race or religion, and that was the case with Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews, and that was the case in Rwanda, when the Tutsis were attacked and over 500,000 were killed in two or three days.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Opinion
  • Jews
  • Hitler

• Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Comfort
  • Hearts
  • Genocide

• The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

  

  Edgar Hilsenrath
  • American
  • Holocaust
  • Genocide

• Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Support

• Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Violence
  • Slavery
  • Modern

• If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Pain
  • Compassion
  • Laugh

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

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Government
  • Genocide
  • Blink

• They will act in the name of a God they cannot hear, a God from whom they are more and more distant, and the result will be war, massacre, genocide, torture. In other words, the four faces of evil.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • God
  • Evil
  • Genocide

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

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Iran
  • Genocide
  • Threatening

• What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

  

  Simon Wiesenthal
  • Power
  • Hands
  • Genocide

• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Work
  • Children
  • Retirement

• When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Mistake
  • Breakfast
  • Impression

• Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.

  

  Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • Hope
  • Encourage
  • Smallest

• I think everyone who saw Alfred Hitchcock Psycho movie, as I did when I was young, was impacted. The shower scene is nuts. It still is, and I think what's wonderful about it is that it's universal. People understand the darkness and the violence, and it's shocking.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • People
  • Movie
  • Violence

• This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

  

  David Bowie
  • Genocide