Quotes About Holocaust

#1. I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

Thomas Schelling

#2. Even if I wrote on nothing else, it would never be enough, even if all the survivors did nothing but write about their experiences, it would still not be enough.
*Response when asked how much longer is he going to write about the Holocaust

Elie Wiesel

#3. If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.

Norman Mailer

#4. Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

Daniel Barenboim

#5. The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

Edward Hirsch

#6. As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

Dan Gillerman

#7. As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

Etgar Keret

#8. When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.

Remi Kanazi

#9. No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#10. The holocaust rises in spirals

("Silver Clasp")

Paul Dermee

#11. The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.

Yehuda Bauer

#12. The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no attention. It is entirely possible that without psychiatry the holocaust could never have taken place.

Peter Breggin

#13. It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

Imre Kertesz

#14. I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

Eugene B. Sledge

#15. The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.

Timothy Snyder

#16. Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
holocaust
The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

Robert Pinsky

#17. It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but poetry and songs.

Jim Morrison

#18. For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold ...

David Grossman

#19. If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

Gloria Steinem

#20. The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

Marek Belka

#21. The Holocaust was in actuality both, but for a long time the overwhelming part of it comprised by the attempted Nazi eradication of European Jewry was downplayed in many circles in favour of its more universalist aspect.

Steven Beller

#22. My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.

Greg Iles

#23. The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

Moshe Katsav

#24. The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#25. It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.

Gordon Brown

#26. Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

Norman Finkelstein

#27. When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

Simon Sinek

#28. Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

Taylor Hanson

#29. We allow justly that the Holocaust has permanently altered the consciousness of our time: Why do we not accord the same epistemological mutation in what imperialism has done, and what Orientalism continues to do?

Edward W. Said

#30. I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

Naomi Benaron

#31. Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians.

Tom Gjelten

#32. The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

Adolf Hitler

#33. The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

Steven Spielberg

#34. The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

Tim Holden

#35. His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone.

Aline Ohanesian

#36. Our intuitions fail us. We rightly associate the Holocaust with Nazi ideology, but forget that many of the killers were not Nazis or even Germans. We think first of German Jews, although almost all of the Jews killed in the Holocaust lived beyond Germany. We

Timothy Snyder

#37. A bookworm-one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries. He has no inward fountain of ideas ... " - "Earth's Holocaust", Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#38. Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

Livia Bitton-Jackson

#39. I don't really read as much but i am reading a depressing book on the holocaust ...

Patricia Reilly Giff

#40. A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

George R R Martin

#41. We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#42. I'm a mother fucking human holocaust!

Jonathan Culver

#43. My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

Ayelet Waldman

#44. Do books about the Holocaust make us think, "Oh well, there was nothing we could've done to prevent that or prevent it from happening again"? Of course not. It makes us angry and determined to stop such atrocities.

James Dashner

#45. I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust. Are you permitted to write everything about it?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#46. The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Samuel Pisar

#47. We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

Eugene Jarecki

#48. I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

Bill Hicks

#49. Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them

Kofi Annan

#50. American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.

A.E. Samaan

#51. 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

#52. My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

Jenna Blum

#53. Adagio Tilburg and an Icy Sick Majumder Melon
Betrayed Together : The Whole Holocaust.
I am Smarter : I Survived The Second Holocaust.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
Babaji
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende
Jan Goossens
September 6, 2016

Petra Hermans

#54. The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

Norman Finkelstein

#55. I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.

Yann Martel

#56. I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.

Imre Kertesz

#57. The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

Yehuda Bauer

#58. The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

David Novak

#59. Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

Irena Sendler

#60. Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

Elliot Perlman

#61. As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

Desmond Tutu

#62. Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.

Robert Manne

#63. I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.

Andy Kindler

#64. If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#65. The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s ... well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

Sarah

#66. We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

Norman Myers

#67. Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

Elie Wiesel

#68. As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

Iris Chang

#69. For us all, the world is disorderly and dangerous; ungoverned, and apparently ungovernable. The questions arise: Who will restore order? Who can counter the danger of nuclear holocaust? Who alone can govern the world? The only answer is Jesus Christ!

Billy Graham

#70. Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Cher

#71. Panky thinking: We had nuclear holocaust on our lips, Big Brother on our minds, 1984 was just around the corner and we were shit scared about the future - George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher had a lot to answer for.

Peter L Masters

#72. The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

Moshe Katsav

#73. Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

Jamie Foxx

#74. I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

Ban Ki-moon

#75. We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

Patrick Chappatte

#76. I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

Nathan Rabin

#77. In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

Ward Churchill

#78. Our guns do not strip the foe of life with surgical strokes. They take them in a holocaust.

Steven Pressfield

#79. To paraphrase Walter Laqueur, a pioneer in the study of the Allies' response to the Holocaust, although many people thought that the Jews were no longer alive, they did not necessarily believe they were dead.18

Samantha Power

#80. The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

Norman Finkelstein

#81. It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.

Zach Braff

#82. The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Michael McCaul

#83. It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Leonard Baskin

#84. To show the Holocaust in all its dimensions is to give a warning.

Zdzislaw Mach

#85. It is deeply pejorative to call someone a 'climate change denier.' This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of 'Holocaust Denial.'

Richard D. North

#86. By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

Grimes

#87. Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

Paul McCartney

#88. The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

David Klinghoffer

#89. ...that the holocaust is so big, the scale of it is so gigantic, so enormous that it becomes easy to think of it as something mechanical. Anonymous. But everything that happened, happened because someone made a decision to pull a trigger, to flip a switch, to close a cattle door, to hide, to betray.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#90. Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

Philip Neri

#91. Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#92. Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?

Graham Swift

#93. Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

Bernie Sanders

#94. A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

Alexandra Robbins

#95. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Eric Hoffer

#96. The truly righteous will find deliverance from the ensuing holocaust, but their numbers will be few: those who remain will pray for death to escape the unspeakable horrors, finding only what they truly hold within their hearts.

Nicholas DeAntonio

#97. The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

Jamaica Kincaid

#98. I do not Support : The Holocaust.
Not Even : "The Second Holocaust."
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
November 3, 2016

Petra Hermans

#99. Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

Rick Strassman

#100. It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Mark Udall