Quotes of: Auschwitz Keyword

This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was no...

Sophie's Choice

A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doe...

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

Sophie: My mother, she's very sick, you know. And I can't do anything. But I think - if only I could have got - that meat for my mother it would make her strong. So I go to the country and er... the peasants were selling ham and I buy it with the bla...

Sophie's Choice

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Edward Bond

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Billy Graham

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Edward Bond

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

David Irving

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

Ariel Sharon

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Noam Chomsky

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

George Steiner

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

Witold Pilecki

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

Antonio Tabucchi

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

The Violin of Auschwitz

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Theodor W. Adorno

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Diane von Furstenberg

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

David Sedaris

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

W.H. Auden

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

Witold Pilecki