Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

All Turkish children also should be killed as they form a danger to the Armenian nation.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

We know, and we must never forget, that every path leads somewhere. The path of segregation leads to lynching. The path of anti-Semitism leads to Auschwitz. The path of cults leads to Jonestown. We ignore this fact at our peril.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.