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Extermination Quotes
Extermination quotes confront some of history's darkest realities, from wartime atrocities to philosophical reflections on how societies justify mass violence. These sayings are sobering by nature, drawn from thinkers examining humanity's capacity for harm.
These extermination quotes grapple with difficult historical and ethical questions, touching on themes also found in Being. Several reflect on how nations reckon - or fail to reckon - with past atrocities.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
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How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
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Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
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Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
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