Acts of violence Quote by Theodor Adorno

“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

“When we first arrived at Auschwitz there were birds. I didn't know what kind, just brown birds, like the finches. They came for about…

— Lawrence Thornton

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

— Chuck Palahniuk

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.

— Newt Gingrich

“But any intuition that vegetarianism and humanitarianism go together was shattered in the 20th-century by the treatment of animals under Nazism.266 Hitler and many…

— Steven Pinker

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of…

— David Heyman

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

— Billy Graham

“Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost…

— Karen Armstrong

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

— Romain Gary

“The word "Auschwitz" has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been murdered, further…

— Timothy Snyder

“Auschwitz—the very name stood for all that was horrible: gas chambers, crematoriums, massacres.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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