25 quotes found
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butcher...”
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”
“I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,”
“If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to keep it.”
“In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan-Thrse Nyirabayovu”
“Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist who keeps a database with the estimated death tolls of historys major wars, massacres, and genocides, counts about 1.2 million deaths from mass killin...”
“For many people, that war [WWII] is called the good war because it was fought against a regime guilty of unspeakable atrocities. But the Allies did not enter the war to save Jews from extermination...”
“At the end of this journey, it seems to me that reconciling the long shadows cast by the uneasy past may ultimately depend on elements so basic that they bring to mind a simple Slav proverb I once ...”
“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble....”
“The West is evidently no longer a safe place to express our opinions, unless we are prepared to meet a bloody end by doing so. The choice is ours, but we can be guaranteed that our government and l...”
“And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in...”
“Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.”
“,Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmaresmost ordinaryso ordinary that you cant believe the brains behind them capab...”
“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”
“Killing one person was murder; killing a few or dozens was ore murder; so killing thousands or tens of thousands ought to be punished by putting the murderer to death a thousand times. What about m...”
“...But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can grasp, but as 5.7 million times one. This does not mean some generic image of a Jew p...”
“As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never agai...”
“Rumors are the children of truth.”
“They'll never know we were here.”
