Holocaust Quotes

• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Life
  • Science
  • Taken

• It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.

  

  James Comey
  • Power
  • Reflection
  • Abuse

• They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.

  

  John Sweeney
  • Up
  • Time
  • Death

• There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People
  • World
  • Remember

• I just finished doing a large Holocaust piece, a seated figure over seven feet tall. It's gigantic. It's going to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Holocaust
  • Michigan
  • Ann Arbor

• Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

  

  Eliot Engel
  • World
  • Holocaust

• I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Long
  • Book
  • War

• Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • American
  • Holocaust
  • Memorial

• My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Up
  • Age
  • Today

• Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

  

  David Novak
  • Holocaust

• Wizards was about the creation of the state of Israel and the Holocaust, about the Jews looking for a homeland, and about the fact that fascism was on the rise again, I thought. That was way before the Right Wing made their appearance again, and I felt that things were shifting back. So on that level, Wizards was a very personal film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Holocaust

• Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

  

  Abraham Foxman
  • War
  • Reality
  • Memory

• Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Trying
  • Rest
  • Dark

• You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?

  

  Uri Avnery
  • People
  • Why
  • Legacy

• Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis
  • Holocaust

• There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • Holocaust

• Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.

  

  Emil Ludwig
  • War
  • Force
  • Doe

• The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.

  

  David Novak
  • Moral
  • Holocaust

• The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

  

  David Novak
  • Up
  • Black
  • Taken

• We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

  

  Norman Myers
  • Humans
  • Planets
  • Opening

• What's our plan? Well, reviewing our assets, we don't have artillery, nor enough grenades. And since we also lack a wheelbarrow and Holocaust cloak... Very funny, Pete.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Plan
  • Artillery
  • Grenades

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