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  • #1
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “So, let us be alert--alert in a twofold sense.

    Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.

    And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
    Victor E Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #2
    William Styron
    Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.

    The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"

    And the answer: "Where was man?”
    William Styron, Sophie’s Choice

  • #3
    Elie Wiesel
    “At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…”
    Elie Wiesel, Open Heart

  • #4
    “I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what has really been learned from the lessons of Auschwitz and the Third Reich? Do we really understand what happened there and how we might prevent such events in future?”
    Daniel Waterman, Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility

  • #5
    George Orwell
    “* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.”
    George Orwell, As I Please: 1943-1945

  • #6
    Józef Piłsudski
    “Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future.”
    Józef Piłsudski

  • #7
    Henryk Sienkiewicz
    “It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.”
    Henryk Sienkiewicz

  • #8
    Cynthia Ozick
    “Cultivation, old civilization, beauty, history! Surprising turnings of streets, shapes of venerable cottages, lovely aged eaves, unexpected and gossamer turrets, steeples, the gloss, the antiquity! Gardens. Whoever speaks of Paris has never seen Warsaw. [...] Whoever yearns for an aristocratic sensibility, let him switch on the great light of Warsaw.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #9
    “Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.”
    Józef Beck

  • #10
    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    “Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.”
    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

  • #11
    “A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #12
    “You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #13
    “Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

  • #14
    Patrick Ness
    “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
    Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

  • #15
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #16
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #17
    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

  • #18
    Lawrence Wright
    “Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.”
    Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower



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