Auschwitz Quotes

65 Auschwitz quotes by 44 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
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

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