Auschwitz Quotes

65 quotes by 44 authors

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. — Edward Bond
For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit… — Emil Fackenheim
The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. — Ian Kershaw
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does… — Charlotte Delbo
The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz. — Nick Cohen
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death.… — Emil Fackenheim
At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner… — Elie Wiesel
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out… — Jean Amery
The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our… — Johann Baptist Metz
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. — Pope Francis
I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it — Charlotte Delbo
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark,… — Diane von Furstenberg
During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. — G. Edward Griffin
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts… — Erwin Chargaff
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing… — Theodor Adorno
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in… — Julie Salamon
There is no German identity without Auschwitz, — Joachim Gauck
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz. — Romain Gary
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she… — Diane von Furstenberg

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