Auschwitz Quotes

Auschwitz Quote of the day

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

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

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

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

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

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.

Jealousy - the Auschwitz of emotions.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.

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

I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

There is no German identity without Auschwitz.

We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

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.

Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

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.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip.

Birkenau simmered in the July sun like some hideous brew, a witch's potion of blood, sweat, smoke, and excrement worthy of something the weird sisters might have cooked up in Macbeth.