Quotes About Genocides

#1. There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.

Esther Hicks

#2. There's still other songs that I think that would never be on the radio that get, it's a different kind of response. Part II, there's just nothing like that. That song will never be on a radio station. ... that song doesn't need that sort of following in order to connect.

Hayley Williams

#3. But shame is not a pleasant feeling, and some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children's history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

Ruth Ozeki

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#5. But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Andrea Martin

#6. For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

Steven Pinker

#7. I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Isak Dinesen

#8. What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

#9. Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

Joe Namath

#10. When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.

John Prendergast

#11. It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!

Widad Akreyi

#12. We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

Tony Abbott

#13. Ronan tightened his grip before leaning over and whispering, "Do you have any idea how much I want you?

Sara Humphreys

#14. What is shame?
You are shunned.
Faces are turned away from you.
They ignore you, as if you didn't exist.
You are naked.
Faces are turned toward you.
They stare at you, as if you were hideous.
You are worthless, and it's no secret.

Edward T. Welch

#15. The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.

John Rucyahana

#16. Apart from numbers and methods, genocides sear the moral imagination by the gratuitous sadism indulged in by the perpetrators.

Steven Pinker

#17. It wasn't like humans were any better behaved toward each other. Look at their wars, their genocides, their weapons of mass destruction. Look at 4chan!

Nicole Peeler

#18. I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.

Kola Boof

#19. Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

Jeremy Corbyn

#20. Let's stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.

Widad Akreyi

#21. The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.

Amy Walter

#22. Elias Canetti once tried to imagine a world in which 'all weapons [were] abolished and in the next war only biting [was] allowed'. Can we be sure there would be no genocides in such a radically disarmed world?

Niall Ferguson

#23. Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Alfred Hitchcock

#24. Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.

Steven Pinker

#25. If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?

Thomas Buergenthal