Holocaust Quotes

301 Holocaust quotes by 217 unique authors

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. — Simon Wiesenthal
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust. — Simon Wiesenthal
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. — George Will
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. — Elie Wiesel
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be… — Anne Frank
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. — Elie Wiesel
Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the… — Barack Obama
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous areâ€¦the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions. — Primo Levi
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make… — Jane Yolen
Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future! — Livia Bitton-Jackson
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. — Alan Moore
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyâ€™re only animals. — Theodor Adorno
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or… — Carol Matas
I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust. — Bill Hicks
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why… — Samuel R. Delany
Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. — Iris Chang
...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded… — John Boyne
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice — Elie Wiesel
Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound… — Lucy Christopher

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