Tadeusz Borowski Quotes

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

What a curious power words have.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.