Quotes About The Holocaust Auschwitz

#1. I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood. - Author: Waka Flocka Flame

#2. Our powder and arrows are going to run out on us some time. And so are our food and water and joie de vivre and good books and everything. Why not walk out now and get made into somebody's favourite slave? - Author: Dorothy Dunnett

#3. The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again. - Author: John Maeda

#4. You will remember this number. you will memorize it. you will answer when it is called. you have no name any longer. just a number. any prisoner who forgets his number or doesn't respond when his number is called will be shot. do you understand? - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#5. The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches. - Author: Johann Baptist Metz

#6. The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered ... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us. - Author: Ariel Sharon

#7. The world must never know the things we do here,colonel. Never. Do i make myself clear? - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#8. Life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves. - Author: Robert A. Dahl

#10. The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it. - Author: Emil Fackenheim

#11. Auschwitz was a much safer place to be than Dresden or any other city of any size in Germany from 1943 onward. - Author: Michael Hoffman

#12. Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him. - Author: Joe Shuster

#13. Considerably more Polish Jews resident in France were killed than French Jews resident in France. Statelessness followed these thirty thousands murdered Polish Jews to Paris, to Drancy, to Auschwitz, to the gas chambers, to the crematoria, and to oblivion. - Author: Timothy Snyder

#14. Messi is the number one. No other player is close to him. - Author: Diego Simeone

#15. Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip. - Author: Susan Pollack

#16. Writing is an outlet, but it's not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it. - Author: Amelia Gray

#17. In the lonely dark she goes again and again to that locked cupboard knowing that she holds the key, and frightened of the self she might find inside. - Author: Frederick Anderson

#18. The question shouldn't be "Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is "Why aren't all the Christians here? - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#19. I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that. - Author: Fortune Feimster

#20. Always cherish your true friends who were there when no one else was. - Author: Heather Wolf

#21. Auschwitz?! That is a name I had heard before. There is not much time for thinking. It had been raining here not so long ago. The asphalt of the wet, wide platform reflects the light of the high lighting-poles. The row of armed SS men competes in howling with their dogs they hold on leashes - Author: Azriel Feuerstein

#22. The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live. - Author: Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

#23. There is no answer to Auschwitz ... To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history. - Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel

#24. The word "Auschwitz" has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been murdered, further east, by the time that Auschwitz became a major killing facility. Yet while Auschwitz has been remembered, most of the Holocaust has been largely forgotten. - Author: Timothy Snyder

#25. Yet what choice did he have? Nothing about this war was fair. Nothing about being Jewish was fair, The only question that counted was whether he wanted to live or not, and he did. - Author: Joel C. Rosenberg

#26. He follows a man with a rolled up mattress strapped to his back. When he stepped down from the train into the brutalising glare of the searchlights in the marshalling yard he noticed two SS soldiers pointing at this man and laughing. - Author: Glenn Haybittle

#27. I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature. - Author: Patricia Piccinini

#28. He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them. - Author: Daniel Defoe