Paul Rusesabagina People Quotations

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

Ladies and gentlemen, history keeps repeating itself but doesn't teach us any lessons. 'Never again' has turned into 'again and again and again.' So tonight, ladies and gentlemen, take Hotel Rwanda as a wake-up call and a message to be our messenger that people are the ones who can change what they want to change.

We saw the whole world closing their eyes and ears, leaving us alone to thugs and gangsters. The genocide took away a million people in a 100 days.

For five minutes I was speechless, ... Then I told them that I didn't know how to use this gun, but even if I did I wouldn't kill these people

If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating their dinners,