Etty Hillesum Quotes

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.

Etty Hillesum

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• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• 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

• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Evil
  • Silly
  • Research

• It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Culture
  • Learn
  • Chinese

• You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Learn
  • See
  • Try

• I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Teacher
  • Learn
  • Late

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Speech

• You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Copy

• My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Learn

• When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Sometimes
  • Learn
  • Daily

• I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your calendar. Driving can help clear the cobwebs of your mind, and you can learn a lot about your fellow Americans while you're at it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Love

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Desire
  • Evil

• Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Evil

• When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Music
  • Job
  • Evil

• I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

  

  Brent Weeks
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Humanity

• Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

  

  Confucius
  • Trust
  • Justice
  • Gentlemen

• A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Evil
  • Learn
  • Conditions