Israel Quotes by Primo Levi

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

— Primo Levi

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

— Primo Levi

Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't…

— Primo Levi

“Válka, to je hlavně velký zmatek, na poli i v lidských hlavách: často člověk ani nechápe, kdo vlastně vítězí a kdo prohrává, o tom…

— Primo Levi

“An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppression. Here, too, the borderline between…

— Primo Levi

“It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or…

— Primo Levi

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

— Primo Levi

“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that…

— Primo Levi

Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the…

— Primo Levi

“We were also born," Line said abruptly. Mendel questioned her with a look, and Line tried to clarify her thought: "Born, expelled. Russia conceived…

— Primo Levi

“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few individuals in…

— Primo Levi

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

— Primo Levi