Auschwitz Quotes

65 quotes by 44 authors

I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would… — Meir Kahane
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this… — Ariel Sharon
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's… — George Steiner
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't… — Elie Wiesel
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be… — Theodor Adorno
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas… — Viktor E. Frankl
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… — Primo Levi
I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer. — David Sedaris
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyâ€™re only animals. — Theodor Adorno
I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to… — Tatiana de Rosnay
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen… — Primo Levi
Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it. — Primo Levi
This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of… — Jacob Bronowski
I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived… — Art Spiegelman
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. — Viktor E. Frankl
You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz. — Helen Fielding
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and… — Primo Levi

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