Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romain Gary

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Charles Patterson

Dr. Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on Jews and Gypsies at Auschwitz (he had two doctorates, by the way) would have fit in quite nicely at Columbia, ... To paraphrase Theodor Adorno, the German Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, 'Auschwitz begins wherever somebody looks at a Columbia lab and thinks: they're only animals.'

Pat Buchanan

Twenty-five hundred is a terrible tragedy; Auschwitz it is not.

Theodor Adorno

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

Gunter Grass

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

Frank Lowy

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

Gunter Grass

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.'