Primo Levi Quotes About Holocaust

Quotes about: Holocaust

• Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

  Primo Levi

  Believe, Asking Questions, Numbers

• My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.

  Primo Levi

  Tattoo, Numbers, Holocaust

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human.

  Primo Levi

  Giving, Holocaust, Relief

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