09-06-2022, 01:58 PM
"We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone.
It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere."
"Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it."
"Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human."
"I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man."
"Everybody is somebody's Jew."
"There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God."
"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea."
Primo Levi
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere."
"Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it."
"Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human."
"I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man."
"Everybody is somebody's Jew."
"There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God."
"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea."
Primo Levi
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)