Suffering Quote by Roger Cohen

Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're…

— Yair Lapid

“But in our camp, his story was everyone’s story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one’s humanity, of…

— Susan Abulhawa

“One last thing I remember which was like a portent of things to come. We had been having tea in Dr Jordan’s house in…

— Agatha Christie

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all…

— I. L. Peretz

“Begin then made the inevitable–if inaccurate–analogy between the German-sanctioned selektzia at Entebbe and the more infamous actions of Dr Mengele at Auschwitz when a…

— Saul David

“In studying the Holocaust together, we have plumbed the depths of the abyss that humanity is capable of, but not because of a fascination…

— Matthew A. Rozell

“The Nazis no longer resorted to hypocritical pretexts about the urgency of opposing and eliminating Marxism. They did not just rob and steal, they…

— Stefan Zweig

“Through the ages, many different groups have called themselves victims. Some came through wars and massacres. Some were slaves or minorities. But the Jews,…

— Celso Cukierkorn

“They often unfavorably compared Holocaust victims to the new, powerful Jews of the Yishuv who dislodged the British and fought off the Arabs with…

— Daniel Gordis

“They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany’s fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance…

— Jessica Shattuck

“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their…

— Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

— Ephraim Mirvis