Auschwitz Quote by Edward Bond

“Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.”

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“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

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We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

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It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

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Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

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“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn…

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The one overall structure in my plays is language

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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on…

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We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

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“I remember that one Holy Week, the magazine I got every Thursday, Anteojito , came with a free poster depicting the Stations of the Cross. I burned the poster and flushed the ashes down the toilet to dispose of the evidence. The idea that I was supposed to pin this graphic depiction of torture and death on my wall seemed…

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No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil and if there is eternity, there can be hell. If it is intellectually dishonest to disbelieve in evil just because it is shocking and uncomfortable, it is the same with hell. Reality has hard corners, surprises,…

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My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not…

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Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so…

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“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what…

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There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

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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 for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio.…

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I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who…

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Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived.…

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The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

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