Genocide Quotes

“Could it not be contrived to Send the Small Pox among those Disaffected Tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, Use Every Stratagem in our power to Reduce them.”

“Most of you know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500 or 1,000. To have stuck it out and at the same time to have remained decent men, that is what has made us hard.”

“Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness.”

“All of them deserved to die because they were the devil's agents and human garbage. I am not sorry.”

“Some argue that recognition of the genocide is a trivial symbolic matter. I wholeheartedly disagree. The historical record of the Armenian Genocide is not a matter of opinion, but a fact of history.”

“The genocide, you know, is a process, not a single event. It's been a process that's been ongoing for 500 years.”

“The Jewish question will only be solved when the last Jew has left German territory.”

“You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.”

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

“Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews, wherever we find them and wherever it is possible.”

“I would like to see the truth about the Holodomor and the crime of the 1930s finally established.”

“I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”

“To be frank with you, had we killed all of them, the 10.3 million, I would be happy and say, 'Good, we have destroyed an enemy.'”

“All genocides are evil, but not all are the same.”

“To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.”

“The logic of settler colonialism is to disappear the Native.”

“We had the moral right, we had the duty to our people to kill this people that wanted to kill us.”

“The Holocaust is phenomenologically unique by virtue of the fact that never before has a state set out, as a matter of intentional principle and actualized policy, to annihilate physically every man, woman, and child belonging to a specific people.”

“The genocidal mentality is a state of mind in which the perpetrators believe they are cleansing the world of an evil.”

“The Jewish people ought to be exterminated root and branch.”