The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust… — Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
I could direct a very decent Holocaust film, but I don't have the same experience as a young boy who was rocked… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Before I became an orphan of the Holocaust my early family life was stable. I grew up as a German Jew in… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier,… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look… — Eugene B. Sledge Copy Share Image
If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“If we take the capsulation of minorities within the nation-state as a given condition, the implication of the Holocaust is that the… — Helen Fein Copy Share Image
The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned,… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren’t therapy. What do you think these places… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“The things I need to say can only be written furtively on scraps of smuggled paper, in moments of time stolen from… — Ovadya ben Malka Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving Copy Share Image
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
When they asked me, couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe,… — Yitzhak Gruenbaum Copy Share Image
Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
De-programming the perfunctory ways of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters is possible. Conservatively speaking, my lectures have converted hundreds of thousands of… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends' parents both survived… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
“We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses. We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers From Prague, Paris and Amsterdam, And… — Moshe Szulsztein Copy Share Image
I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Holocaust The Nazis were extremely prejudiced against the Jewish people. Under Hitler’s leadership, the Nazis killed millions of Jewish people, as… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was all a big joke. I could see that now. There was no rhyme or reason to whether we lived or… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image