Benefit Quotes
Saloth Sar Pol Pot. The mass murders took place in “killing fields” where the victims were buried alive or hacked and bludgeoned to death and then buried in mass graves. The twisted logic was that the capitalists and educated people must be eliminated and therefore, cities must be eliminated. Pol Pot and his associates calculated that only 2 million people were really needed to run Cambodia if it was only a rural agricultural state. So anyone who did not farm or have those skills was unnecessary to their concept of a state. See {631144}.
See John F. Kennedy's famous 1961 inaugural quote {589867} for a more modern articulation targeted at all. The above quotation is from the Anthony R. Ferris translation of 1958. In an interesting play of influences, note the following Andrew Dib Sherfan’s 1975 translation done after the Kennedy inaugural address.
This philosophical point of view is at odds with that of many Native Americans.
At the time, the German manufacturing capability had been destroyed by allied bombing, and the allies were facing large casualties invading the heart of Germany and its cities. Churchill reasoned that the Germans could not retaliate. Although it was against the Geneva Convention, the Germans had already broken that many times and committed the worst war crimes. Therefore, he argued that there was no obligation for the allies to comply. However President Roosevelt had promised that we would not be the first to use poison gas, and Churchill was talked out of his idea.
