Marion Barry Quotes

Just as the Jews did after the Holocaust, never again will be allow this many murders in the streets of Washington, D.C. Never again.

Marion Barry

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• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Internet
  • Might
  • Holocaust

• The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Evil

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Think
  • Stop

• Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Creation

• It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Why
  • Me
  • Single

• We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Good
  • God
  • Respect

• My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Grandparents
  • Holocaust

• I've always been really into movies, and I definitely thought I'd be involved with movies at some point.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Reality
  • Childhood
  • Holocaust

• I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live

• I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Time
  • Death
  • Effort

• It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music

• Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • World
  • Holocaust

• Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Life
  • Animal

• Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I was growing to, how Arabs were cast as the aggressors in the dispute between Israel and the Arab countries, when it was their land that had been seized to resolve a European political problem.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Growing

• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Food

• A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Artists
  • Scare
  • Gate

• I felt guilty because I survived.

  

  Edgar Hilsenrath
  • Guilty
  • Survived

• Just as the Jews did after the Holocaust, never again will be allow this many murders in the streets of Washington, D.C. Never again.

  

  Marion Barry
  • Holocaust