Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
When I was five I had violin lessons.
The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless. . . and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.
. . . As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
I used to teach dance lessons.
I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out. . . . It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador. " I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what you can learn. . . . It's like falling in love. Your whole dating life, you're thinking, On the one hand, on the other hand. Then you meet the right guy, and you're not in list-making mode; you're just with the person you're supposed to be with. Jobs are like that too.
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
Let us come together before we're annihilated.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.
Nature abhors annihilation.
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.