Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent."
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Genocide
80 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Cesare Pavese
Poet, Novelist
"Lessons are not given, they are taken."
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Nature abhors annihilation."
Herman Cain
Businessman, Politician
"It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide. You can quote me on that."
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"This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!"
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"The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."
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"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."
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"When I was five I had violin lessons."
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"The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N."
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"Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide."
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"I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days."
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"Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million."
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