"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were……" — Antonio Tabucchi
"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."
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Antonio Tabucchi
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37 Quotes by Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi has 37 quotes on this site.
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I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an…
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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
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My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in…
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I…
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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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More Auschwitz Quotes
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
— Primo Levi
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened…
— Terry Brooks
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal…
— R. J. Hollingdale
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There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have…
— Nahum Goldmann
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No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
— Art Spiegelman
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
— Newt Gingrich
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I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
— Michael Crichton
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
— Elie Wiesel
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