Holocaust Quotes - Page 5

Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.

David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.

Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?

It is deeply pejorative to call someone a "climate change denier". This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust Denial.

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.

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not.

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

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

I don't care what you call it. I believe in the quote, unquote, Holy Holocaust.

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

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