Concentration Camp Quotes

78 Concentration Camp quotes by 67 unique authors

Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was… — Unknown Author
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor… — Hannah Arendt
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the… — Peter Benenson
[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first… — Viktor E. Frankl
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces… — Ayn Rand
Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think… — Bob Proctor
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders,… — Thomas Merton
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,… — George Orwell
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy. — Loudon Wainwright III
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. — Alva Myrdal
The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to… — Mahmoud Abbas
Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to… — Rachel Caine
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and… — Boris Johnson
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… — Saul Bellow
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order. — Albert Speer
Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution… — Frederick Lenz
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that… — James Laughlin
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon… — P.J. O'Rourke
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I… — Fred Korematsu
Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made… — Charlie Chaplin
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory. — Eugen Kogon
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. — Arthur Miller

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