Concentration Camp Quotes
78 Concentration Camp quotes by 67 unique authors
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Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of…
— Martha Gellhorn
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There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.
— Martha Gellhorn
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Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the…
— Mark Hoppus
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
— Jack Kevorkian
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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground…
— Gene Simmons
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In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
— Elie Wiesel
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So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They…
— Haruki Murakami
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to…
— Aldous Huxley
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.
— Imre Kertész
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if…
— Pablo Picasso
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Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot…
— Elie Wiesel
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[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I…
— Tracy Hickman
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When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into…
— Milan Kundera
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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
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil…
— Thrity Umrigar
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its…
— Hannah Arendt
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...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to…
— Betty Friedan
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