Quotes About Belsen

#1. The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen

Tony Benn

#2. If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945

Mervyn Peake

#3. The photographs of the inmates at Bergen-Belsen or Andersonville Prison or the bodies in the ditch at My Lai disturb us in a singular fashion because those instances of egregious human cruelty were committed for the most part by baptized Christians.

James Lee Burke

#4. Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet ... Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English,

Kate Atkinson

#5. It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

Leonard Cohen

#6. Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

Sylvia Plath

#7. For all the sublimity of the cause for which we fought, we surely created a Belsen of our own. The method was impersonal, but the result was equally cruel and heartless. That, I am afraid, is a sickening truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

W.G. Sebald

#9. My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

Gerry Abbey

#10. The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.

Muriel Knox Doherty

#11. When I was asked to leave, I left ... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.

Paget Brewster

#12. The carriageway to the front door was wide, and graceful white birches lined it. In autumn they shed a carpet of gold on the road, and in winter, burdened with snow, they arched over it, a frosted white tunnel paned with glimpses of blue sky.

Robin Hobb

#13. The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

David Wilkerson

#14. The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

Heather Morris

#15. Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

Henry Ford

#16. 6on the Day when God will raise everyone and make them aware of what they have done. God has taken account of it all, though they may have forgotten: He witnesses everything.

Anonymous

#17. One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

Phil Hartman

#18. I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

David Levithan

#19. I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

Keith Urban

#20. Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

Emo Philips

#21. I have been helped over and over by wonderful men and women in my career. Men help each other all the time, and that kind of inclusion among women can create similar success.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#22. There was still something I could do: I could tell the world.

Leslie H. Hardman

#23. When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Henry Rollins

#24. God help me! I am small and alone but I must help them; and I most not waste a moment, because every moment another soul dies.

Leslie H. Hardman

#25. The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

Joe Moore

#26. Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

Paulo Freire