Genocide Quotes - page 5

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. (John Major)
I wouldn't put out a statement praising it, but we're not going to condemn it either. [Nixon's comment about the atrocities and genocide committed by the West Pakistan government against Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War]. View quote
Richard Nixon
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic. View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch. View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact. View quote
Nadia Murad
Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today. View quote
Slavenka Drakulic
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect. View quote
Stephen Kinzer
When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide. View quote
Jordan Peele
The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust. View quote
Edgar Hilsenrath
I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide. View quote
Etgar Keret
The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. (Kevin Mitnick)
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. View quote
David Harsanyi
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. View quote
Chris Bohjalian
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be? View quote
Chris Bohjalian
The claims of an Armenian Genocide are not based on historical facts. If the history of the period is examined it becomes evident that in fact no such genocide took place. View quote
Cenk Uygur
The evidence on this question is persuasive: the best way of eliminating war between nations, of minimizing domestic political violence, and of virtually making genocide and mass murder a horror of the past, is by fostering political freedom. Politically free nations do not make war on each other, have minimum domestic political violence, and virtually no genocide and mass murder. I call this the miracle that is freedom. View quote
Rudolph Rummel
In practice, Marxism has meant bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal prison camps and murderous forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and fraudulent show trials, outright mass murder and genocide. View quote
Rudolph Rummel
Power kills, absolute Power kills absolutely. This new Power Principle is the message emerging from my previous work on the causes of war and this book on genocide and government mass murder-what I call democide-in this century. The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. View quote
Rudolph Rummel
Democide is a government's murder of people for any reason or no reason at all. Genocide is the murder of people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or language. View quote
Rudolph Rummel
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism. View quote
Serj Tankian
The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable. (Khloe Kardashian)
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. View quote
Alcee Hastings
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage. View quote
Alveda King
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew. View quote
Bill Whittle
The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them. View quote
Dinaw Mengestu