Genocide Quotes

What motivates me to go to Washington is that, during World War II, so much of the world stood idly by as the genocide happened. - Jenny Lewis

What makes me sick is that when I come across someone who is guilty of genocide I do not get on a plane and go to Baghdad and grovel at his feet. - Oona King

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. - Simon Wiesenthal

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin ... The Justice Game. - Geoffrey Robertson

We're here to call upon the president, President Clinton, to ensure that all war criminals in Bosnia are arrested and brought to justice. Today we're here to say there's much more to be done to bring a just and stable peace to Bosnia, if we do not arrest the perpetrators of these crimes of genocide, we'll risk the investment of billions of dollars, now its about seven billion [dollars], thousands of military and civilian personnel, and our prestige and influence as the greatest country on the face of the earth. - Bob Dole

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide. - Imron Cotan

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide. - Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We thought it would make a stronger impact to come here with the resolutions going through the House [of Representatives], you know and try to, try to let Dennis know that we're still here and we want him to do the right thing and bring up the vote in Congress on the Armenian genocide resolution. - Serj Tankian

We think his policies are totally contrary to what we want for Latin America and are promoting genocide, domination of workers and their communities and the plundering of natural resources. - Juan Gonzalez

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. - Jared Diamond