Miep Quotes

#1. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

Shalom Auslander

#2. Jan Gies won't need to. He'll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep

Anne Frank

#3. It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

Hillary Clinton

#4. Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

Miep Gies

#5. I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.

Miep Gies

#6. Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Miep Gies

#7. I don't bring my life into a character at all.

Joaquin Phoenix

#8. Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Ernest Dimnet

#9. The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.

Ben Schwartz

#10. I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Miep Gies

#11. Siddha powers are a type of occult power, but occult powers come in many shapes and forms. The Siddha powers that you most commonly hear about are things like levitation, telepathy, and astral projection.

Frederick Lenz

#12. It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

#13. I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Miep Gies

#14. You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

Miep Gies

#15. Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

Miep Gies

#16. People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

Miep Gies

#17. Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

John Adams

#18. I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

Miep Gies

#19. I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person within the church. I do encourage any person who believes they have been a victim of abuse to come forward and to inform the police.

David Hope

#20. We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Miep Gies

#21. Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

Miep Gies

#22. Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard,

Miep Gies

#23. But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

Miep Gies

#24. I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

Miep Gies

#25. But moving from conversation to violence is just as hard as moving from flirting to kissing. There's that leap you have to take, to shed your inhibitions and expose your naked impulses.

Jonathan Tropper

#26. Sometimes things seem out of our hands. They are, mostly. The great paradox is that this thing is totally out of our hands, or are we creating this as we go along? Then the issue is, "Who is the Creator.

Art Hochberg

#27. Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

Elihu Root