James Joyce Quotes

In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen. (419.9-10)

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• 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

• L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Nice
  • Hand
  • Learn

• 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

• I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Children
  • Day

• 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

• There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Very
  • Conspiracy

• 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

• I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Time
  • History
  • Silence

• 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

• The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Different
  • High
  • Celebrity

• 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

• You're measured by championships no matter what.

  

  Candace Parker
  • You
  • Matter
  • Championships

• 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

• What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

  

  Jon Porter
  • World
  • Home
  • Community

• I've learned there are a lot of people that don't want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn't fit their other beliefs and so they deny it and it makes them sleep better at night to do so. But it makes the Holocaust survivors sleep better at night to know that we've given them a voice.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • People
  • Holocaust

• Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

  

  Rumi
  • Home
  • Way
  • Take

• In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen. (419.9-10)

  

  James Joyce
  • Holocaust