Collection of Quotes

"It is the failure to see the humanity in others, which makes it possible to commit these crimes." Daniel Goldhagen

"In genocide these are the questions to be asked: why do neighbors turn against neighbors, why do killers kill?" Daniel Goldhagen

"People need to understand that nothing about genocide is inevitable, it boils down to a series of choices." Daniel Goldhagen

“Yes they lived here, they were neighbors, friends.  The one who killed my father was a good friend of his….I really don’t understand how things changed.”  Rwandan genocide survivor

“The rotten bones of the world tremble, fearing the big war.  We have broken the peace.  It was a great victory for us.  We will continue to march even if everything is destroyed to pieces.  Since today Germany belongs to us, and tomorrow the whole world!”  Holocaust survivor

“The killers didn’t think of the victims as humans or they wouldn’t have killed them.” Rwandan genocide survivor

“They were saying that Tutsis are dangerous, that they are snakes that should be exterminated.  They said that they had to exterminate all the Tutsis, even the unborn, so the world would never see another Tutsi.”  Rwandan genocide survivor Veronica Mukasinafi