cultural genocide

Chief Wilton Littlechild "Kill the Indian, Save the Man."

Promoted by Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald [1815-1891], 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their homes to "civilize" them; not less than 1500 were killed. Video here.

the secret to longevity

"Tenacious thirst for revenge."
- a philosophy that brought justice to Adolf Eichmann  

Ahistorical

"People don't want to be reminded of the past, especially if it's a guilty or unattractive past."
- on Portugal's Salazar Police State amnesia

tyrant

"When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics."
- Stalin

the end of Scottish culture

Hendrick ter Brugghen, Bagpipe Player, 1624

An earlier reference to the Battle of Culloden here.

massacre the idle, the unfit

I "appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. Deadly by all means, but humane not cruel."
- George Bernard Shaw, 1934

Six Arrows

Developed as the guiding secular philosophy of modern Turkey by founder and 1st President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk [1881-1938]. He was an Ottoman Empire Pasha. And played a role in the Armenian genocide, where at least one million people were terminated.