30-06-2022, 03:01 PM
"Take care of our children. Take care what they hear, take care what they see, take care of what they feel. For how the children grow, so will be the shape of Aotearoa."
Dame Whina Cooper
ÔÇ£However this war may end, we have won the war against you; none of you will be left to bear witness, but even if someone were to survive, the world would not believe him. There will perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proof should remain & some of you survive, people will say that the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed: they will say that they are the exaggerations of Allied propaganda & will believe us, who will deny everything, & not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the Lagers.ÔÇØ
SS officer, quoted in The drowned & the saved, by Primo Levi
ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Primo Levi
'ThereÔÇÖs nothing scarier than that split second in the shower when you lose your balance & think ÔÇÿoh god theyÔÇÖre going to find me naked!ÔÇÖ
Anon
Dame Whina Cooper
ÔÇ£However this war may end, we have won the war against you; none of you will be left to bear witness, but even if someone were to survive, the world would not believe him. There will perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proof should remain & some of you survive, people will say that the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed: they will say that they are the exaggerations of Allied propaganda & will believe us, who will deny everything, & not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the Lagers.ÔÇØ
SS officer, quoted in The drowned & the saved, by Primo Levi
ÔÇ£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.ÔÇØ
Primo Levi
'ThereÔÇÖs nothing scarier than that split second in the shower when you lose your balance & think ÔÇÿoh god theyÔÇÖre going to find me naked!ÔÇÖ
Anon
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)