Top 13 Eichmann Trial Quotes

#1. At one point Malkin and one of his colleagues took Eichmann to the toilet. They waited outside. After a few minutes, Eichmann called out to Malkin, 'Darf ich anfangen?' ('May I begin?') Only when told yes did he begin to move his bowels.

The Eichmann Trial, page 17

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#2. I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

Melissa De La Cruz

#3. Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

Vincent Bugliosi

#4. No, Eichmann assured him, there was no specific talk of killing methods.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 137

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#5. You look old, Fred." "I feel old. But it's better than the alternative.

James S.A. Corey

#6. On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: "I have not told you everything yet".

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 44

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#7. Faith is something you decide to do, not something you feel like doing." So

Neil T. Anderson

#8. Water," he said, licking his lips. She patted his shoulder. "I'll be right back.

Hugh Howey

#9. Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 87

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#10. Beliefs are what you know without choosing to. Just believe.

Skyler White

#11. Ultimately, Hausner's efforts regarding the murder were thwarted when questions posed by both Servatius and the judges proved that Avraham Gordon, whom Hausner called as the witness to the murder, could not have observed it.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 99

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#12. Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

Mike Tyson

#13. I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Alexander McQueen

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