Concentration Camp Quotes - Page 3

I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

Diane von Furstenberg

Mother, Children, Dark

"It's a wrap". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2006.

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I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Father, Roles, Helping

"The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.

Paul Virilio

Confused, War, Skeletons

Source: ctheory.net

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Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?

Ron Rosenbaum

Evil, Perfect, Marxist

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Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

Rachel Maddow

Running, Party, Holocaust

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I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the concentration camps, and we discussed it with other prisoners. And our feeling was we did not only lose the war, we lost also our honor.

Manfred Rommel

War, Feelings, Honor

Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

Henry Morgentaler

Children, Humanity, Attention

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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

Leon Trotsky

Character, Past, Roots

"Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary" Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 213), 1996.

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No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Christopher Hitchens

Gone, Way, Gulags

"Christopher Hitchens: Religion Poisons Everything". Interview with Jon Wiener, www.truthdig.com. June 7, 2007.

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Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

Dale Spender

Education, War, Women

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If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story?

Paul Copan

Strong, Writing, Goal

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Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

Mark Hoppus

Mom, Beach, Dad

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Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations.

Elie Wiesel

Brother, Hurt, Father

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...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

Saul Bellow

Struggle, Sleep, Fighting

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...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

Betty Friedan

Growing Up, Mind, Suffering

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Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Attitude, Real

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.78, Beacon Press

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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar.

Rose Wilder Lane

Government, Law, Political

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By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

Thomas Merton

Political, Trials, Favors

Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.134, Sounds True

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To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

George Orwell

Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

Osbert Sitwell

Golf, Purpose, Towns

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After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

Loudon Wainwright III

Happiness, War, Difficult

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The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N.

Harold Wallace Rosenthal

Doors, World, Red

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We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Book, Fighting, Men

"Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

Peter Benenson

Light, Darkness, Chinese

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I would not draw definitive conclusions from that. If we look at South and North Korea, it is pretty hard to believe that we're dealing with the same people. Half of the people are forced to live in a concentration camp; the other have created one of the most dynamic economies in the world.

Garry Kasparov

Believe, Korea, People

Source: www.rferl.org

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