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Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
holocaust
The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. — Robert Pinsky

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another. — Max Bemis

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust. — Muhammad Ali

Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once. — A.E. Samaan

When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon? — Jodi Picoult

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust. — Roseanne Barr

Silence is the fence around wisdom — Rabbi Akiva

I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost. — Hannah Senesh

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion. — Elie Wiesel

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me. — Poppet

I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust. — Andy Kindler

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in. — Norma McCorvey

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal. — Chuck Palahniuk

Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers. — Diane Ackerman

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet. — Taylor Hanson

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

The past is gone and what is ahead is still to be felt. — Nonna Bannister

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

Any denial of the facts is a denial of the truth. Holocaust deniers cling to Any revisionism for political purposes. — A.E. Samaan

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. — Eli Roth

The the Shoah involved millions of people, it was a unique experience for each of them. — Ruth Kluger

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust. — Noam Chomsky

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. — Natalie Portman

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. — Ralph Webster

Do not be a perpetrator. Do not be a bystander. Do not be a victim. — Yehuda Bauer

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me. — Diet Eman

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence. — Anne Michaels

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. — Tim Holden

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased. — David Cortright

But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do. — Diet Eman

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War? — Caroline Lucas

The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews. — Muriel Knox Doherty

You kill yourself when you hate. It's the worst disease in the world. — William Schiff

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery. — Diet Eman

In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad. — Danny M. Cohen

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. — Robert Harris

I'll bring pajamas " she said.
"Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?"
"Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight. — John Sandford

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust. — Golda Meir

I had to help them. There was no choice. — Oskar Schindler

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word. — Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet. — Jonathan Sacks

To show the Holocaust in all its dimensions is to give a warning. — Zdzislaw Mach

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor. — Craig Rosebraugh

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be. — Tadeusz Pankiewicz

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people — Heinrich Heine

He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust. — Josephin Peladan

The Nazis understand everything except humour. — Mary Berg

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. — Robert Shapiro

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break. — Michael Hastings

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility. — Rhonda Fink-Whitman

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence. — Ayelet Waldman

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within. — Hans Keilson

One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist. — Michael Barnett

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out. — Etgar Keret

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. — Timothy Radcliffe

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian. — A.E. Samaan

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

For the animal kingdom, the Holocaust never ended. — Philip Wollen

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear. — Hans Frank

I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. — Mae West

The holocaust rises in spirals

("Silver Clasp") — Paul Dermee

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming. — Beck

When you believe in me : you believe in
your Betrayal : Never.
P.C.M. Hermans
Babaji
06-09-2016
Netherlands — Petra Hermans

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ... — Elie Wiesel

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do. — Hans Haacke

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s ... well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews. — Sarah

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. — Ben Shapiro

Maybe i'm ashamed because it's hard not to feel ashamed, when just being born is something you can be killed for. — Sharon Dogar

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust. — Billy Graham

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon. — David Klinghoffer

Things like nuclear holocaust. Or carbon monoxide poisoning. Or having to leave the house and interact with people who weren't my mother. — Jenny Lawson

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies. — Elie Wiesel

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial. — Nathan Rabin

I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us. — Ralph Webster

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. — Fidel Castro

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business. — Norman Finkelstein

Without me, Scrubs would be worse than the holocaust. But with me in it, it's turned into the lolocaust. — Zach Braff

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust. — Bill Hicks

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion. — David Simon

Look at me, here I am. Hitler is nothing but ashes. — Annette Libeskind Berkovits

Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust. — A.E. Samaan

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole. — Moshe Katsav

It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity. — Simone Veil

They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews. — Diet Eman

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait. — Primo Levi

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. — William S. Cohen

How could we [the world] have stood by and let that happen to them? We owe them. — Carroll S. Walsh Jr.

A holocaust of an afternoon. — Carlton Palmer

You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there. — Nicole Mones

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way ... like Holocaust deniers. — Pete Postlethwaite

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself. — Grimes

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.

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core. — Sarah Silverman

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps. — Patrick Macnee