Ruth Kluger Quotes

#1. You said that the mind is like the wind, but perhaps it is we who are like the wind. Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die. And then some. Mum, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you're not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mum.

Christopher Titus

#3. Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

Hayao Miyazaki

#4. You'll be civilized or we'll leave your arse here." Johan ... "Vital Perception

D.L. Given

#5. I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Fidel Castro

#6. Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him.

Hassan Nasrallah

#7. The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

Ruth Kluger

#8. Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Gyorgy Kepes

#9. Well, I've already got ten thousand set aside. That's a good start. If you think about it when we get home, give me your Social and next time I drop by the bank, I'll open an account in your name, okay?

Donna Tartt

#10. How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?

Ruth Kluger

#11. The old idea, or rather the old prejudice, that women are protected by men was so deeply ingrained in that society that they overlooked what was the most obvious, that is, that the weakest and the disadvantaged are the most exposed.

Ruth Kluger

#12. You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.

Michelle Moran

#13. The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Ronald Reagan

#14. The the Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them.

Ruth Kluger

#15. Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

James Fadiman

#16. Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.

Ruth Kluger

#17. I could be proud to have survived what some have called the asshole of creation, proud that it held me and couldn't keep me. But it is dangerous nonsense to believe that anyone contributed much to her own survival.

Ruth Kluger

#18. Your maman was in my room last night."

"And I was not." His tone was glum.

Sharon Cameron