"We will not return No one must leave……" — Primo Levi
"We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz"
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58 Quotes by Primo Levi
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of…
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his…
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has…
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is…
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them…
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could…
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God,…
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Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore…
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I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this…
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An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong.
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More Auschwitz Quotes
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
— Primo Levi
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened…
— Terry Brooks
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal…
— R. J. Hollingdale
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There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have…
— Nahum Goldmann
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No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
— Art Spiegelman
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
— Newt Gingrich
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I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
— Michael Crichton
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
— Elie Wiesel
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