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

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Source : Axis Rule in Occupied Europe preface (1944).

Raphael Lemkin

#Mean Quotes #Groups Quotes #Genocide Quotes

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
“Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.”
“Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.”

Source : "Collected works of Periyar E.V.R." by Tantai Periyār, (p. 504), 2005.
“Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.”
“I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.”
“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.”
“The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.”
“Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.”

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