The Pity of It All Quotes

“He should have added the old truism that in war millions of young men butcher millions of other young men who have done them no harm and whom they have never met—all on behalf of a few old men who know one another only too well. *”
― Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

“Germany”
― Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

“true home, we now know, was not “Germany”
― Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

“The patience of the oppressed has always been the most inexplicable, as well as probably the most important, fact in all of history.”
― Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933

“panegyric”
― Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

“parvenus.”
― Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

“Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.”
― Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933