Top 128 Auschwitz Quotes & Sayings

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

There is no German identity without Auschwitz.

There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

Jealousy - the Auschwitz of emotions.

I had an awful joke about Auschwitz I drove everybody crazy with that joke. But that joke makes me feel good. You know what "cuit" means? When something is cooked. It's a joke like that: "What are the birds doing when they fly over Auschwitz? 'Cuit! Cuit!'" It's awful, but it's desacralizing. For me, it's good.

I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it

There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all

For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.

At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of those gestures they work for you, or for them, to fill their time or not feel their anxiety. But the child feels everything. It doesn't make the child secure. You put the child in a jail.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.