David Irving Quotes

#1. Hearing this, I was reminded of Hajo's comment the previous summer. "People like David Irving do not throw firebombs. They throw the words that can cause others to throw those firebombs.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#2. David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

Margo Kingston

#3. David Irving is not just a Fascist historian . He is also a great historian of Fascism .

Christopher Hitchens

#4. The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews

David Irving

#5. There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

David Halberstam

#6. How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time,
had faced a decision to strike for freedom

Irving Stone

#7. The discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

David Irving

#8. I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

David Irving

#9. Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more ... Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.

Bruce Springsteen

#10. Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

David Irving

#11. David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day.

Jonathan Yardley

#12. To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

Plato

#13. [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)

David Halberstam

#14. History is like a constantly changing tree.

David Irving

#15. Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

Joe Abercrombie

#16. The incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'

David Irving

#17. David Copperfield.

John Irving

#18. I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

David Irving

#19. As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'

Lenny Abrahamson

#20. That's my girl." Again,

Victoria Aveyard

#21. Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

David Irving

#22. I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

David Irving