Benjamin B. Ferencz | minimalistquotes

I don’t say they’re naive, I say they’re stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don’t even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That’s insane.
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Any
People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.
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Discouraged
Look what’s happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said,
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Somebody
I prefer law to war under all circumstances.
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What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity.
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Numbers
If it’s naive to want peace instead of war, let ’em make sure they say I’m naive. Because I want peace instead of war.
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Naive
“You’re crazy.” But it’s a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn’t – you know – be despairing because it’s never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.
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Changing Despairing
And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.
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Holocaust Mentality
Well, if it’s naive to want peace instead of war, let ’em make sure they say I’m naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace.
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Well
Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task.
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Race

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