Auschwitz Quote by Gunter Grass Download Open image “Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.” — Gunter Grass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Auschwitz Explanation Ifs
None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“ Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history. — Isaac Herzog Copy Share Image
“Auschwitz has also become the standard shorthand of the Holocaust because, when treated in a certain mythical and reductive way, it seems to separate… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy. — Witold Pilecki Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I remember that one Holy Week, the magazine I got every Thursday, Anteojito , came with a free poster depicting the Stations of the… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
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… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who… — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
