Raphael Lemkin Genocide Quotes

#1. Reflections they give me
That my mirror does not
They know the new me
Not the old me
That I am not

Kathleen Marie

#2. 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

#3. A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

Tahir Shah

#4. Most people do not have the guts to direct their own movie - let alone star in it.

Tom Robbins

#5. O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!

Gary Snyder

#6. Friedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren't in search of the truth, they're in search of themselves.

Clive James

#7. But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside. I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn't even begin to understand.

Jojo Moyes

#8. She told me to tell you love is not a feeling. It's a sacrifice.

Jennifer Clement

#9. Forgiveness can help you to be sane.

Bryant McGill

#10. Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

Karen Kingsbury

#12. Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

#13. I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

Tiger Woods

#14. The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

Raphael Lemkin

#16. if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad

George Gordon Byron

#17. If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Ralph Bunche

#18. By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

Raphael Lemkin