Quotes About The Nuremberg Trials

#1. At the Nuremberg trials, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt described the actions and the architects of the Holocaust with a simple, memorable phase--saying that the whole lot represented 'the banality of evil.' Her long ago words applied well to the man before us.

Michael Morton

#2. You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

Joan Rivers

#3. Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

Michael Ignatieff

#4. During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General, ... is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

G. Edward Griffin

#5. The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.

Anthony Lewis

#6. We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

George Wald

#7. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Fernando Araujo Perdomo

#8. If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

Madonna Ciccone

#9. I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

Charlie Sheen

#10. Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

#11. I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

Asa Don Brown

#13. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. The Lord saved my soul.

Steve Harvey

#15. Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

Agona Apell

#16. The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.

Charles Williams

#17. For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Albert Speer

#18. Immigration, as promoted by the Democrat Party, really is a voter registration drive, pure and simple. It is a desire by the Democrat Party to find another way to remain in perpetual power, by creating as many dependent voters as they can.

Rush Limbaugh

#19. Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.

Mark Twain

#20. The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history ... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the court did not have a single document signed by A. Hitler concerning the extermination of Jews ...

Rick Sanchez

#21. Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Plutarch

#22. The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.

Haskell Wexler

#23. When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.

David Roberts

#24. It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.

Jimmy Carter

#25. Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.

A.E. Samaan

#26. This is something that I have learned at PA that I would have never learn at home because I have my own room and I'm an only. Nobody has it easy, not even the Great and Tall Blond One

Adriana Trigiani

#27. Motivation doesn't last, neither does shower. That why we need it everyday

Zig Ziglar