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Quotes About Extermination

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.
~ Susan Orlean
World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people.
~ Morten Tyldum
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
If the Nazi Holocaust exterminated the Other, the Soviet terror was suicidal.
~ Masha Gessen
In our present age, each day can bring shocking new manifestations of oppression, slavery, or extermination—whether aimed at specific social groupings or spread over entire regions. Exercising resistance to this is legal, as an assertion of basic human rights, which, in the best cases, are guaranteed in constitutions but which the individual has nevertheless to enforce.
~ Ernst Junger
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind
~ Bertrand Russell
Q: Until you actually reached Auschwitz, you had no idea that the deportations to the East were for the purpose of extermination? A: No, I did not know this and we did not know it. We knew very well that the London radio spoke about the gas chambers, but we didn't take it at all seriously. We thought it was propaganda—we didn't believe it was really so.
~ Bill O'Reilly
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration and systematic extermination of whole peoples and groups in society. Then, from 1965, this became a preoccupation of writers - not always in an acceptable form.
~ W. G. Sebald
When, a year later, the Madagascar project was declared to have become "obsolete," everybody was psychologically, or rather, logically, prepared for the next step: since there existed no territory to which one could "evacuate," the only "solution" was extermination. Not that Eichmann, the truth-revealer for generations to come, ever suspected the existence of such sinister plans.
~ Hannah Arendt
The simultaneous decline of the European nation-state and growth of antisemitic movements, the coincident downfall of nationally organized Europe and the extermination of Jews, which was prepared for by the victory of antisemitism over all competing isms in the preceding struggle for persuasion of public opinion, have to be taken as a serious indication of the source of antisemitism. Modern
~ Hannah Arendt
The real horror of the concentration and extermination camps lies in the fact that the inmates, even if they happen to keep alive, are more effectively cut off from the world of the living than if they had died, because terror enforces oblivion.
~ Hannah Arendt
The extermination machinery had been planned and perfected in all its details long before the horror of war struck Germany herself, and its intricate bureaucracy functioned with the same unwavering precision in the years of easy victory as in those last years of predictable defeat.
~ Hannah Arendt
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
What could Yeshua of Nazareth have made of Martin Luther's outburst Death to the Law! which in many German Lutherans who served Hitler became Death to the Jews! The Germans would not have crucified Jesus: they would have exterminated him at Auschwitz, their version of the Temple.
~ Harold Bloom
I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
~ Oriana Fallaci
If philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
~ Frantz Fanon
The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.
~ Fridtjof Nansen
There is no doubt that the destiny of indigenous races has been tragic in the process of contact with European invasion… The historian of the future will have to register that Europeans in the past sometimes exterminated whole island peoples; that they expropriated most of the patrimony of savage races; that they introduced slavery in a specially cruel and pernicious form; and that even if they abolished it later, they treated the expatriated Negroes as outcasts and pariahs.
~ Bronis?aw Malinowski
If one group of people can exterminate another in the name of so-called religion, the world has no hope.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Atrocities were commonplace during the first phase of occupation by the Powers. When German brutality in South West Africa provoked a revolt by the Hereros, the German general, Lothar von Trotha, issued a Vernichtungbefehl ('extermination order') against the whole tribe, women and children included. About 20,000 of them were driven away from the wells to die in the Omaheke desert.
~ Thomas Pakenham
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
~ Mark Twain
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
Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.
~ Susan Orlean
Reszta uciekÅ'a lub zostaÅ'a wypÄ™dzona. wielkie skupiska ?ydowskiej ludnoÅ›ci wystÄ™powaÅ'y w Polsce (milion osiemset tysiÄ™cy) i Rosji (pi?? milionów). Z praktycznego punktu widzenia uÅ'atwiaÅ'o to Hitlerowi realizacjÄ™ planu eksterminacji, wystarczyÅ'o bowiem napa?? i zdoby? oba te kraje.
~ Sven Lindqvist