Borowski Quotes

#1. I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

Tadeusz Borowski

#2. Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.

David Icke

#3. Don't pinch!" said his eagle. "You need not be frightened like a rabbit, even if you look rather like one.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.

Tadeusz Borowski

#5. Yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done?

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. What a curious power words have.

Tadeusz Borowski

#7. Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth
that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves
that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night
so the rope, paper, knife.

Tadeusz Borowski

#8. Nirvana is a state of unconditional acceptance. Wherever you are, if you can accept your life with totality, with joy, with gratitude, if you can see your life as a gift, then nirvana is never a problem. The problem arises only because you don't accept your life, you reject life.

Osho

#9. It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

Tadeusz Borowski

#10. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.

Lao-Tzu

#11. I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

Tadeusz Borowski

#12. Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

Tadeusz Borowski

#13. And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you ...

Tadeusz Borowski

#14. There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

Tadeusz Borowski

#15. I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

Tadeusz Borowski

#16. Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

Tadeusz Borowski

#17. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

Tadeusz Borowski