Miep Gies Quotes
- I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero…
- People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.
- Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard,
- I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
- I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
- Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.
- Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
- I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
- Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
- You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.
- But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark…
- We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.
- Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody…