Auschwitz Quotes
65 quotes by 44 authors
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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 as a tool or they…
— 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 with the blood of the…
— 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 consciousness of the death of…
— 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 come and we have stolen…
— 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 Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his…
— 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 country. It is true God…
— 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 is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an…
— 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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Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain…
— Elie Wiesel
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We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil…
— Primo Levi
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Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
— Primo Levi
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I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
— David Irving
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The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory…
— Philip Gourevitch
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There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.
— Theodor Adorno
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Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.
— Tom Lantos
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
— Edward Bond
Who Wrote These Auschwitz Quotes
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