Top 389 Armenian Genocide Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.

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

Recognition of the Genocide is the triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms...my entire body is hairless.

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless.

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws people for a loop. My mother's first husband is Mexican. That's where I got Lopez.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

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

It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

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

With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied 'political genocide', a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries.

Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them.

Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After '36 Chowringhee Lane,' we haven't seen that part of the city in films.

The United States was founded on the triple sin of slavery, genocide, and land theft.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

Not so many Armenian players are given the chance to play in the Champions League, and this is really important for me, because I want to do everything to impress the children who are watching me playing.

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

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.