Geneva Quotes: Inspiring Words about the City of Peace

"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"

"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists"

John Yoo, Educator

"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention"

Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity

"Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating"

John Yoo, Educator

"It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq"

John Yoo, Educator

"Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks"

John Yoo, Educator

"Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions"

John Yoo, Educator

"Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions"

John Yoo, Educator

"That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them"

John Yoo, Educator

"At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray"

James Meade, Economist

"After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army"

James Meade, Economist

"There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention"

Charles Guggenheim, Director

"What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it"

Yoweri Museveni

"The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids"

Andrew Vachss, Author