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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? -- Wilfred Burchett
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. -- John F. Kennedy
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. -- Ludwig von Mises
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. -- Lewis Mumford
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. -- Alexander Dubcek
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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure. -- Terry Eagleton
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? -- Rene Cassin
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. -- Federica Montseny
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. -- Alva Myrdal
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. -- Martin Heidegger
Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself. -- Jean Baudrillard
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination. -- George Bernard Shaw
I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas. -- John C. Wright
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians? -- Adolf Hitler
The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at. -- Yehuda Bauer
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured -- Amiri Baraka
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. -- Bertrand Russell
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. -- John Steinbeck
The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination. -- Stuart L. Pimm
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION. -- Marcus Garvey
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things... -- Theodore Roosevelt
No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism. -- Anthony Gregory
In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America? -- Jerry Springer
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination. -- Gabriel García Márquez
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action. -- Vladimir Lenin
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?" -- Rene Cassin
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race...After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians? -- Adolf Hitler
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That's why my family left Germany in 1938. -- Henry A. Kissinger

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