Holocaust Quotes - Page 13

• I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

  Elie Wiesel

  May, Incidents, Happened

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Average

  "Media Control". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1991.

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• Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

  Abraham Foxman

  Memories, War, Reality

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• I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.

  David Loy

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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• Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.

  Ezra Levant

  Political, Freedom Of Speech, Cartoon

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• 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, Relief, Deeds

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• Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

  David Irving

  Experts, Figures, Gas

  " David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2006.

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• When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

  Adolf Hitler

  Home, Age, Want

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• The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed: You have no right to live among us. The German Nazis at last decreed: You have no right to live.

  Raul Hilberg

  Lasts, Christianity, Nazi

  Raul Hilberg (1973). “The destruction of the European Jews”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

  Wladyslaw Szpilman

  Evil, Humanity, Earth

  Wladyslaw Szpilman (2000). “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, p.177, Picador

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• And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.

  Wladyslaw Szpilman

  Running, Thinking, People

  Wladyslaw Szpilman (2011). “The Pianist”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

  Richard Perle

  War, Our Generation, Evil

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.12, Random House

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• Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Israel, Should

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• Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.

  Howard Ruff

  Erosion, Government, World

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• It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

  Aviva Cantor

  Animal, Hunting, Lynching

  "The Club, the Yoke, and the Leash: What We Can Learn From the Way a Culture Treats Animals". Ms. magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, August 1983.

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• Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Art, Philosophy, War

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• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Taken, Rights, Roles

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Needs, Looks, Genocide

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• For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

  William Cohen

  Nuclear, World, Genocide

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• It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

  Leonard Baskin

  Years, Fifty, Way

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• Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

  Eli Roth

  Talking, People, Wwii

  "Eli Roth: Everybody wants to be the guy who kills Hitler!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  Viggo Mortensen

  These Days, Genre

  "The happy trails of Viggo Mortensen". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Suffering, Way, Publicity

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• Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

  George Monbiot

  Stupid, Climate, Looks

  "The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it". www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2006.

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• Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.

  Norma McCorvey

  Father, Looks, Arms

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