Genocide Quotes

• 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.

  

  Michael Moore
  • America
  • Built
  • Genocide

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My final conclusion after 40 years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and the unofficial policy of the Save the Children's Fund and almost all those organizations is one of murder and genocide. They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don't.

  

  Archie Kalokerinos
  • Organization
  • Saving
  • Genocide

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

  

  Edgar Hilsenrath
  • American
  • Holocaust
  • Genocide

• 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

• The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

  

  William Godwin
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Lessons

• 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

• 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

• 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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