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.
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?
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...
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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.
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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...
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
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This is a heavier topic, drawing on philosophy and history rather than casual reflection. See Anything and Adversaries for related discussions on conflict and justification.
