RomÃ©o Dallaire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Born #Should #Where You Are
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Hands #Devil #Rwanda
Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Humans
It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Children #War #Reality
Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Rights #Advancement #Causes
For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Country #Strong #Independent
I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Bridges #Car #Suffering
There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Laughing #Guilt #Trying
Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Struggle #Ego #Subterfuge
Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Communication #Borders #World
The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.
-- RomÃ©o Dallaire

#Pain #Stress #Home

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