#genocide

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#attempt #behavior #exterminate #genocide #people

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different

Do not tell me that it is not God-like to get angry or go into a fit of rage. God himself when enraged will grasp a star and hurl it through the heavens. And at night, you can see bits of the star flashing through the sky, fallen apart merely by the shear force of which it was thrown. Know when He is angry and stay out of His way… And the same holds true for my grandson.” Yervant Yacoubian. ↗

— Keri Topouzian

#armenia #armenian #armenian-genocide #constantinople #genocide

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#governments #international #international law #law #mandated

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#genocide #how #judged #responded #watch

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#administration #approach #armenian #armenian genocide #confirmed

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. ↗

— James Lovelock

#bad people #capable #commit #evolutionary #genocide

It is not power that corrupts but fear. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#burma #genocide #myanmar #politics #corruption

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#another #beings #care #convention #deeds

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#because #crimes #culture #effort #genocide