Quotes About Armenian Genocide

#1. I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug ...

Alexander Shulgin

#2. The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

Pope Francis

#3. Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.
Rose of Life

Sonia Rumzi

#4. No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.

Taner Akcam

#5. You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Atom Egoyan

#6. If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

Martha Beck

#7. Like a child in new boots leaping from puddle to puddle, this view sees history as leapfrogging from one bloodbath to the next, from World War One to World War Two to the Cold War, from the Armenian genocide to the Jewish genocide to the Rwandan genocide, from Robespierre to Lenin to Hitler.

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. We feel our lives are worth living after we discover something worth dying for.

Jeffrey Fry

#9. 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?

Chris Bohjalian

#10. If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Mark Foley

#11. I have to just get up early and make sure I run. I'll do 40 minutes, four miles. It's not easy, but it clears my head.

Lindsay Price

#12. If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

Mahalia Jackson

#13. It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Kim Kardashian

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

Niall Ferguson

#15. The Armenian genocide was a horrific illustration of the convulsions that could seize a multi-ethnic polity trying to mutate from empire into nation state.

Niall Ferguson

#16. The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide.

Mark Geragos

#17. 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

#18. A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.

Bilal Philips

#19. In a report dated 20 February 1894, French ambassador Paul Cambon describes a high-ranking Turkish official telling him that "the Armenian question does not exist, but we shall create it.

Taner Akcam

#20. The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#21. Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide?

Adolf Hitler

#22. The fallout caused by denial was inherited by later generations of Armenians, linking them to the fateful days of 1915, and compelling them to set the record straight.

Michael Bobelian

#23. In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.

Taner Akcam

#24. The Lebanese government has officially recognized the Armenian genocide, but nowhere is there any official memorial to the victims of the World War I famine.

Louis Farshee

#25. I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

Elizabeth Emken

#26. The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

Adam Schiff

#27. Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#28. I am ashamed of my nation.

Djemal Pasha

#29. This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

Jerry Costello