Top 19 Lemkin Quotes
#1. By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.
Raphael Lemkin
#2. At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.
Bear Grylls
#3. The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in its execution and up to this point profited greatly therefrom
Raphael Lemkin
#4. Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?
Raphael Lemkin
#5. Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.
Raphael Lemkin
#6. Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!
Raphael Lemkin
#8. I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I don't like it. I don't like to see everything I see. It's like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and I'm not looking at her, I'm looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.
Julie Klausner
#9. I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe
#10. When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#11. I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.
Neil Young
#12. I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]
Tom Gleisner
#13. Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
Giacomo Casanova
#14. I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
Jack Nicholson
#15. The costumes aren't costumes they're uniforms. Uniforms mean something. At least to me. And while we wear them we represent something bigger. Something that symbolizes. We stand up.
- Captain America
Brian Michael Bendis
#16. If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.
Raphael Lemkin
#17. The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
Olly Murs
#19. I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.
Raphael Lemkin
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