Yehuda Bauer Quotes

#1. Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

Susie Bright

#2. While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'.

Narendra Modi

#3. A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

Mario Monti

#4. 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

#5. I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.

Yehuda Bauer

#6. 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

#7. Debt will always be the abattoir of creative dreams.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. I don't suppose you molested me while I was all tied up?" That out-of-the-blue query had her mouth hanging open, and she blinked. "Are you for real?" "Totally. Want to touch me again and see?

Eve Langlais

#9. Invest in what you know.

Peter Lynch

#10. Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#11. Time to rest as congratulations are in order ... you have survived and mastered the beast; may knowledge of self be your victory.

Wes Adamson

#12. Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

Matthew Arnold

#13. I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

David Guterson

#14. Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.

Peter Burwash

#15. Do not be a perpetrator. Do not be a bystander. Do not be a victim.

Yehuda Bauer

#16. Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

Yehuda Bauer

#17. The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

Yehuda Bauer

#18. And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.

Yehuda Bauer