Holocaust Quotes - Page 4

• Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on railroad cars and transport them hundreds, even thousands, of miles to concentration camps. Camps built specifically to house them, where they would be fed, clothed, even tattooed so they could be inventoried...just to kill them.

  Edgar Steele

  War, Fighting, Two

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• Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Events, World, Revelations

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• In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Country, Humanity, World

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• Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Example, Survivor, News

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• There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Opposites, Way, Climate Change

  "Postlethwaite lambasts climate deniers on eve of green film premiere" by Felicity Carus, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2009.

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• How could we [the world] have stood by and let that happen to them? We owe them.

  Carroll S. Walsh, Jr.

  World, Happens

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• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupid, Mean

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• There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

  Martin Scorsese

  War, People, World

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• The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Writing, Israel, People

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• The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

  Patrick Macnee

  People, Radio, Genocide

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• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupid Funny, Dumb Celebrity, Stupid Republican

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

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• The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Europe, Aftermath

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• The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

  Jonathan Sacks

  People, Survivor, Privilege

  "Yom HaShoah: A Call to Remember From the Depths of Our Jewish Soul" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Hate, Anime

  Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, 27 Oct. 1986

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• We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European history during an advanced state of technology and form of civilization, only to become an event in that history that questioned what civilization actually means.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Mean, Technology, Civilization

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

  Hannah Arendt

  Confusion, Essentials, Attention

  Hannah Arendt (1951). “The Burden of Our Time”

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• It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Denialism, a concept that was first widely used, as far as I know, for those who claimed that the Holocaust was a fraud, is the concept I believe we should use.

  Robert Manne

  Believe, Use, Firsts

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• How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?

  Martin Amis

  Children, Class, Car

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Memories, Evil, West

  Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Compassion, Race, Law

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• Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Forget

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• Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Wonder, Nonsense, Given

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• There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  War, Responsibility, Way

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