Crime Against Humanity Sayings

#1. We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

Nelson Mandela

#2. The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it.

Brian Andreas

#3. This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Ronald Reagan

#4. Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

Waris Dirie

#5. The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity.

Taner Akcam

#6. When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

#7. Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Pope John Paul II

#8. If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#9. If your God asks you to commit crime against humanity, change your God.

Vinita Kinra

#10. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Kailash Satyarthi

#12. Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that's become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society.

Pope Francis

#13. If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

James Nachtwey

#14. Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#15. David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

Margo Kingston

#16. I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it.

Cornel West

#17. What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

Paul LePage

#18. Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used those? That's a crime against humanity right there.

Carrie Jones

#19. One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Sebastian Junger

#20. We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

George H. W. Bush

#21. We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

Samantha Harvey

#22. To him, as to me, the War was inevitable and justifiable. Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.

Siegfried Sassoon

#23. Of these, only the last, the crime against humanity, was new and unprecedented. Aggressive warfare is at least as old as recorded history, and while it has been denounced as "criminal" many times before, it has never been recognized as such in any formal sense.

Hannah Arendt

#24. Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Simon Doonan

#25. I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

#26. The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

Immanuel Kant

#27. Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ ... It is a crime against humanity.

Pope Francis

#28. A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.

Henry De Montherlant

#29. When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

A.D. Posey

#30. Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

Dean Cavanagh

#31. Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.

Jean Ziegler

#32. We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

Jostein Gaarder

#33. Reichenbach, I believe, made it a precondition for doing scientific epistemology that the very notion of 'Jewish science' be philosophically inadmissible. The Nazi racial laws were not only a crime against humanity, they were a crime against philosophical principle.

Ronald N. Giere

#34. In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

Marty Rubin

#36. But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.

Stefan Zweig

#37. Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

George Carlin

#39. In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

Carlos Fuentes

#40. And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

Kim Wilde

#41. The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.

Charles B. Rangel

#42. In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.

Annie Besant

#43. Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

Armando Valladares

#44. Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.

Pope Francis