Holocaust Quotes - Page 19

• We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hope, Despair, Literature

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• Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mean

  News Conference on Iran Deal, edition.cnn.com. July 15, 2015.

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• Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Memories, Disappointment, Betrayal

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
  A thousand and one remains a thousand,
  as though the one had never existed:
  an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
  ...
  emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
  nobody's place in line.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Running, War, Garden

  Wislawa Szymborska, “Hunger Camp At Jaslo”

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• Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

  Paul Celan

  Black, Bitterness, Milk

  Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

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• A nothing
  we were, are, shall
  remain, flowering:
  the nothing--, the
  no one's rose.

  Paul Celan

  Rose, Flowering

  Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• When sleep enters the body like smoke
  and man journeys into the abyss
  like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
  then all quarrel ceases,
  overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
  of its rider.

  Nelly Sachs

  Stars, Sleep, Journey

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
  holocaust
  The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

  Robert Pinsky

  Death, Ornaments, Frozen

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “History of My Heart: Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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• The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.

  David Cortright

  Risk, Nuclear, Use

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• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

  Oliver Stone

  Sorry, Regret, Hard Work

  "Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish Domination Of The Media’ Propagates Holocaust Myths". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

  George Will

  People, Despair, Please

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• Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

  Elie Wiesel

  Tragedy, Answers, Sometimes

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• The Holocaust most assuredly challenges any and all faith in God. Faith in humanity. Faith in nature. Faith in the future. I don't "tell" young people anything. I ask them to consider many things, particularly, their assumptions regarding their natural obligations to be loving towards all living beings. Many of my works - both literary and film - are fictional, like Codex Orféo. And that's because the genre has always allowed me to suggest things that are opinions, spiritual impulses and intuitions, not necessarily provable.

  Michael Tobias

  Spiritual, People, Challenges

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

  Maya Angelou

  Sacrifice, Long, Racism

  Source: teentalkingcircles.org

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• Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Reality, Israel, Strategy

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I was growing to, how Arabs were cast as the aggressors in the dispute between Israel and the Arab countries, when it was their land that had been seized to resolve a European political problem.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Reality, Israel

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• In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

  Erica Jong

  Weight, Way, Skinny

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• My mom, for most of her life, was a Holocaust denier. And it was terrible for the entire family to have to deal with until, finally, a couple years ago, we had an intervention. And we had a rabbi come into the home, had him walk her through the history of the Jewish people, and then he made her watch "Schindler's List." And after that, my mom did a complete 180. Now she can't believe it only happened once.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Mom, Couple

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• Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Song, Perfect, People

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• I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, People, Community

  Interview with Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

  Israel Horovitz

  Stories, Has Beens

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• A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.

  Phil Plait

  Complaining, Denial, Common

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• I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

  Thomas Schelling

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Agreement, Decision

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I wear a mezuzah just to remind me, just to make sure that there is never another holocaust anywhere.

  Orrin Hatch

  Source: mormontruthinterviews.blogspot.com

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