Tadeusz Borowski Quotes

#1. It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

Tadeusz Borowski

#2. For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

Rupert Sheldrake

#3. Crossing barriers can be as simple as a smile.

Ron Kaufman

#4. A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.

Tadeusz Borowski

#5. What a curious power words have.

Tadeusz Borowski

#6. All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

George Whitman

#7. Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth
that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves
that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night
so the rope, paper, knife.

Tadeusz Borowski

#8. The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Gerry Spence

#9. Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.

Tim Field

#10. The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The peoples of the world do not invent their gods. They deify their victims.

Rene Girard

#12. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

Tadeusz Borowski

#13. I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

Tadeusz Borowski

#14. I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

Tadeusz Borowski

#15. Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

Tadeusz Borowski

#16. And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you ...

Tadeusz Borowski

#17. A great book remains eternally in one's memory as today's legend.

Mayi Ngwala

#18. I'm probably the worst at games. I don't really like computer games either. And when I lose, I won't go again but just say I don't want to play anymore.

Yoseob

#19. There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

Tadeusz Borowski

#20. I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

Tadeusz Borowski

#21. Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

Tadeusz Borowski