Holocaust Quotes

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)
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. View quote
Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. View quote
Elie Wiesel
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. View quote
Roger Ebert
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten. View quote
Atom Egoyan
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world. View quote
Eliot Engel
Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust. View quote
Norma McCorvey
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. View quote
Tim Holden
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. (Tim Holden)
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty. View quote
Jerry Coyne
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too. View quote
Roman Vishniac
What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust. But this is a new Holocaust. View quote
Hugo Chávez
Because of my experience with the Holocaust, I don't like to lose friends. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
It is not "scientism" to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. (Amy Bloom)
I reject that criticism because this is indeed another kind of holocaust, by another name. At last count, more than 40 million unborn children have been deliberately, intentionally destroyed. What word adequately defines the scope of such slaughter? [After 9/11] the American people responded with shock, sadness and a deep and righteous anger - and rightly so. Yet let us not forget that every passing day in our country, more than three thousand innocent Americans are killed [through abortion]. View quote
Jesse Helms
What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated. View quote
Paul LePage
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. View quote
William S. Cohen
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. View quote
Iris Chang