The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless,… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other.… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
“It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.” — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat. — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death. — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
“Despite the madness of war, we lived for a world that would be different. For a better world to come when all this is… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
