Holocaust Quotes - Page 5

• It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Book, Yesterday

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity.

  Simone Veil

  Men, Evil, World

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Firsts

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century.

  Dan Quayle

  Dumb Celebrity, Century, Obscene

  Campaign remark, Moore, Okla., 15 Sept. 1988. These remarks were quoted in the L.A. Times, 16 Sept. 1988.

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• Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Healthy, Should

  "Legends of Our Time". Book by Elie Wiesel, 1968.

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• The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Punishment, Two, Principles

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Genocide, Has Beens

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• Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

  Dennis Prager

  Want, Deny, Repeats

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• The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no attention. It is entirely possible that without psychiatry the holocaust could never have taken place.

  Peter Breggin

  Taken, Impact, Civilization

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• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspiring, Memories, Civilization

  "Amb. Nancy Brinker: We must never forget Elie Wiesel and his message" By Amb. Nancy Brinker, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2016.

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• You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

  Simon Wiesenthal

  God, Religious, Coffee

  New York Times Obituary, September 20, 2005.

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

  Primo Levi

  Tattoo, Numbers, Arms

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

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• It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.

  Anne Waldman

  Reading, People, Trying

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Grief, Struggle, Ghetto

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• European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Israel, Establishment, Palestine

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand translated by Christopher Sultan, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

  Etgar Keret

  Believe, Son, Survivor

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust

  Richard Weikart

  War, Struggle, Eugenics

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• The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, People, Sincere

  Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

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• If every other Jew had a weapon in 1939, there wouldn't be a Holocaust.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Weapons, Jew, Ifs

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• Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Expression, Doubt

  "Leader's Address to Air Force Servicemen". www.leader.ir. February 07, 2006.

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• The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

  Tim Holden

  Powerful, Responsibility, Racism

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• I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime.

  David Irving

  Thinking, Quality, Events

  Source: thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com

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• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

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• Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

  George Clooney

  Growing Up, War, Hopeful

  "TOMORROWLAND: George Clooney, Damon Lindelof, and Brad Bird on the Boldness of Originality and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2015.

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