Primo Levi Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

  Primo Levi

  Children, Giving, Today

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

• To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.

  Primo Levi

  Taken, Islands, Names

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