Benjamin B. Ferencz Quotes

• War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  War, People, Murderer

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• People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  People, Remember, Discouraged

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• Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. 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.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Compassion, Race, Law

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• There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Meaningful, Law, Justice

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• 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, 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.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Stupid, War, People

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• I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. 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, "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.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Crazy, Reality, Men

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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. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  War, Numbers, Law

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• 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.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  War

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• I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  War, Law, Circumstances

  "Crimes Against Humanity Benjamin Ferencz Interview". Interview with Katy Clark, ratical.org. September 19, 2001.

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