Iris Chang > Quotes

“As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking

“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking

“When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.”
― Iris Chang

“The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.”
― Iris Chang