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Quotes About Exterminated

The colonel stood up. "I hope you enjoy your trip to Uruguay. Its government is stable, democratic, and politically mature. There's even a welfare state. Of course, the people are entirely European in origin. I believe they exterminated all the Indians. As a German, you should feel very much at home there.
~ Philip Kerr
The nationalization of the masses can be successfully achieved only if, in the positive struggle to win the soul of the people, those who spread the international poison among them are exterminated.
~ Adolf Hitler
The fact that she had not yet exterminated her mother proved that she was incapable of violence.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Out of the warlike peoples arose civilization, while the peaceful collectors and hunters were driven to the ends of the earth, where they are gradually being exterminated or absorbed, with only the dubious satisfaction of observing the nations which had wielded war so effectively to destroy them and to become great, now victimized by their own instrument.
~ Edward O. Wilson
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
~ Carter G. Woodson
The sea cows lived in the northern North Pacific and ate kelp. Humans exterminated sea cows in 1768.
~ Hal Whitehead
As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the crime of Judaism into the fashionable vice of Jewishness was dangerous in the extreme. Jews had been able to escape from Judaism into conversion; from Jewishness there was no escape. A crime, moreover, is met with punishment; a vice can only be exterminated.
~ Hannah Arendt
Eichmann, though no legal expert, should have been able to appreciate that, for he knew from his own career that one could do as one pleased only with stateless people; the Jews had has to lose their nationality before they could be exterminated.
~ Hannah Arendt
such banditti who might for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the Earth.
~ Michael B. Oren
When I was a girl, I heard stories about Vulcans who could touch minds," she said. "Is it true?" "Yes," he said, revealing his people's most closely guarded secret, one for which entire species—such as the Betazoids and the Ullians—had been all but exterminated.
~ Mike Sussman
the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.
~ Herman Melville
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
~ Carter G. Woodson
Throughout history--even a hundred years ago, even fifty--it was discontent that was considered the threat to society, the defiance of natural law, the danger that had to be exterminated at all costs. Now it's contentment,
~ Tana French
they were a sort of vermin like plague-rats that had to be exterminated.
~ Niall Ferguson
Under the influence of a world which no longer recognized the value of human life and human dignity, which had robbed man of his will and had made him an object to be exterminated (having planned, however, to make full use of him first—to the last ounce of his physical resources)—under this influence the personal ego finally suffered a loss of values.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembrance of the victors.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
After a while the desire of self-preservation gathered them into cities; but when they were gathered together, having no art of government, they evil intreated one another, and were again in process of dispersion and destruction. Zeus feared that the entire race would be exterminated, and so he sent Hermes to them, bearing reverence and justice to be the ordering principles of cities and the bonds of friendship and conciliation.
~ Plato
It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.
~ Rafael Sabatini
And how many problems have been solved to date?" "We haven't exterminated ourselves." "You claim credit for that? I knew you had gall, but this is fantastic!
~ John Brunner
At dinners, he boasted about his future conquests over the Russian "subhumans." He spoke warmly of the way the United States government had exterminated so many of the Native Americans in the nineteenth century, seizing and settling their land.
~ Unknown