Genocide Quotations

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

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

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the threat of constant attack from enemies right next door, under ceaseless and often unfair international scrutiny, defending his homeland by day and living with the memories of mass genocide at night.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

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

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.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

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.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

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

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

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

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.

Words are no longer enough. It is time for action. This is the first genocide of the 21 st century. The world has said, 'Never again.' Those words must mean something.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away and hope that this will somehow disappear. It's the first genocide of the 21st century.

This ain't rock 'n' roll; this is genocide

Many of these targets are indeed the brains behind the brutality going on in Kosovo today, part of the apparatus that is driving this ethnic genocide that is going on inside this part of former Yugoslavia,

sent an important message to the world that there should be no impunity for genocide and crimes against humanity.

Sen. Allard is aware the band is heavy metal and has strong 'political lyrics' in their songs, but he admires the band members for their standing up for what they believe in, and for their strong support of the Armenian Genocide Resolution.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

My hunch is, we're watching a bureaucratic slow-roll take place, but the danger is it's happening as the situation on the ground is getting worse. The administration has been in this knot of having called the situation genocide but then failing to do anything.

On the face of it, the genocide (charge) is not irresponsible, but it is very difficult to prove.

If we do not act ... by the time the snow falls next winter, there will be genocide documented on a large scale in Kosovo.

I don't know that this one rally in Washington is going to change everything, but I don't want this genocide to happen without trying to do something to stop it.

If we allow genocide anywhere in the world, it will happen again somewhere else, unless we make it crystal clear to the perpetrators that it is unacceptable any time, any place.

We made it very clear that the reason they have given (for fleeing), that is genocide or 'ethnic cleansing' in Papua, we can testify to the fact that it is absolutely baseless.

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.

I think every Jew has a collection of stories from the Holocaust, and those stories are an integral part of our identity today. The primary lesson of the Holocaust is that genocide silences victims' voices, and it's our responsibility to shout the words they cannot communicate.

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

White people are dying out. Genocide is being committed against us. I admire blacks in that they are very racist. They stick together don't they?

We protested today to show Sudanese dictator General Omar Al-Bashir that we hold him personally accountable for this worsening, three-year genocide and that we will keep the pressure on him, and on the international community until it ends.

We do not believe that you can ask people who have been victims of an ongoing repression and most recently of genocide to now have to go back to live in an occupied territory by the Serbian government,

We are actually talking about the genocide as part of our past, but we are doing it in such a way that people can learn something.

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

We still have a goal, and that is to have the University commit to not invest in any of these companies in the future until the genocide stops.

Finally after 60 years, the Holocaust has been accepted in Europe as being the horrible genocide that they themselves committed.

We see potential evidence of genocide and that evidence will continue to be collected

What motivates me to go to Washington is that, during World War II, so much of the world stood idly by as the genocide happened.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

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.

There's a genocide going on and we need to put pressure on Washington D.C.. I think, as young people, we don't realize the power we have.

The Security Council has today said that in the 21st century, the world will not tolerate genocide or crimes against humanity.

The situation now is plain genocide. Genocide is when doctors have to decide who gets and who doesn't get medicine ... because they don't have enough. That's fascism.

Rwanda is known for the wrong reasons, the genocide that happened 10 years ago. We are trying to change the image that everyone still has: the image of the genocide.

Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure. Will there be lengthy academic or legal debates on what constitutes genocide or crimes against humanity while people die?

As a pretext for military engagement, genocide carried out by Serbs will be made up... by making it appear a genocide was carried out, an anathema will be placed on the heads of Serbs and measures will be carried out,

This decision can only encourage the criminals of tomorrow. Italy endorses genocide and crimes against humanity.

This commitment is as clear as it is historic. Today we congratulate world leaders on agreeing their responsibility to protect civilians. After each genocide in the past, world leaders have said 'never again'; now, at last, the world has agreed that 'never again' should mean 'never again', and this could help make tragedies like the Rwandan genocide a thing of the past.

This is a major step toward preventing genocide in the future.

They're spinning the story to not be associated with the genocide that is clearly occurring.

As Jews, we have an obligation to ensure that what happened to us in the past doesn't happen to others. We have a commitment and an obligation to speak up and speak out loudly whenever and wherever genocide may take place.

allowing us to be persuaded by the argument of those who would deny that the genocide occurred at all.

Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. The accusations are made against the Ottoman regime and are no reflection on the modern Turkish state or Turkish people. I have met to discuss the issue with a range of representatives from the Turkish community and agreed to host a seminar for them to present their view on this period of history.

It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship.

It's really important for people to realize that this isn't old news because some people think the genocide had stopped. They're like 'I heard about that in 2003, and it's 2006 now.' It's still happening.

The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

I still believe that we have enough evidence to prove that he (Milosevic) was deeply involved in wartime events in Bosnia in our genocide and aggression lawsuit against Serbia and Montenegro.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it'll all disappear, then they will, all of them - an entire generation of people. This is in fact the first genocide of the 21st century.

In the short term, the most pressing issue is the continued existence of predatory armed groups, ... Although there is no easy military solution to this dangerous phenomenon, those guilty of the worst atrocities and human rights abuses -- and especially those guilty of genocide -- must not be allowed to escape unpunished.

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

Governments must stop hiding in their corners and work to reach agreements on crucial poverty reduction and genocide prevention measures.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

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

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

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

The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding...

You can sense the genocide from 10 years ago, but there is still a sense of optimism and energy.

The charges of high treason and genocide are extremely grave as regards the journalists. We call on the Ethiopian government to show the utmost transparency in these cases. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi should not try to defuse the criticism against him at the expense of the freedom or lives of citizens.

The genocide was brutal, criminal and disgusting and continued for 100 days under the eyes of the international community,

The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genocide.

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

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

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

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

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