The Warburgs Quotes

“shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now; let me not defer it nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“As Weizmann said, the world for Jews was “divided into places where they cannot live and places where they may not enter.”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“I considered it absolutely inconceivable that this man [Hitler] could ever become sole ruler of one of the most creative, competent, industrious and powerful of peoples,” he later”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“noblesse oblige.”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“1942 alone, the Nazis exterminated two and a half million Jews. As Max wrote,”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“work despite these impediments. The Children’s Transport movement was a magnificent achievement that had snatched ten thousand children from the gas chambers by the time it ended in August 1939. It rescued one third of all Jewish children who escaped the Nazis. Half the Jewish children in Germany were never to emerge again.”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“work despite these impediments. The Children’s”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“Felix and Frieda had distributed thirteen million dollars to two hundred causes over the past fifteen years. Henceforth, Jewish philanthropy would shift from the paternalism of individual Jewish bankers to fund-raising bureaucracies, administered by professional staffs. As Felix predicted, the Jewish”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

“Betty had a Jewish mother’s implicit faith that expensive lessons and tightly scheduled days of activity will produce healthy, wealthy, nonneurotic offspring.”
― Ron Chernow, The Warburgs