Quotes on Genocide

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact… I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.