For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
Elie WieselTags: war genocide holocaust witness
...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.
Noam ChomskyTags: bible genocide 2004 wallace-shawn
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 butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.
Chief SeattleTags: people sadness america memory genocide land native-americans poignant mournful
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
Aung San Suu KyiTags: politics genocide asia burma myanmar
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
Philip GourevitchIf I look at the mass I will never act.
Mother TeresaTags: inspirational power activism apathy genocide helplessness
In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan
-Thérèse Nyirabayovu
Tags: god religion genocide rwanda
If human is capable of conducting genocide,
no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs.
Tags: genocide homo-homini-lupus wiped-out
So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone. I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to employ them. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far from being 'nationalized,' had been privatized for the use of one family, and was being squandered on hideous ostentation at home and militarism abroad. (Post-Kuwait inspections by the United Nations had uncovered a huge nuclear-reactor site that had not even been known about by the international community.) I had seen with my own eyes the evidence of a serious breach of the Genocide Convention on Iraqi soil, and I had also seen with my own eyes the evidence that it had been carried out in part with the use of weapons of mass destruction. I was, if you like, the prisoner of this knowledge. I certainly did not have the option of un-knowing it.
Christopher HitchensTags: fascism genocide iraq iraq-war militarism bill-clinton united-nations psychopaths oil national-socialism ba-ath-party ba-athist-iraq al-capone crime-family genocide-convention invasion-of-kuwait kuwait nationalisation nuclear-reactor-technology privatisation serial-killers stalinism wmd
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