Genocide Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Stage
  • Communist
  • Genocide

• 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 matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Humanity
  • Relationships
  • Population

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

  

  Edgar Hilsenrath
  • American
  • Holocaust
  • Genocide

• To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Planning
  • Program
  • Abortion

• Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Children
  • Innocent
  • Atheism

• One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Books
  • Monsters
  • Genocide

• 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

• All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Mean

• 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

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

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Government
  • Genocide
  • Blink

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

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Genocide

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