"Survival in Auschwitz" Quotes
A harrowing account of Primo Levi's experiences as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II.
nonfiction | 187 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air.
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men.
It is not guilt, it is a question of feeling, which I am unable to explain.
I always thought of a prisoner’s life as a kind of nightmare, but when I read this book, I realized that I knew nothing about true nightmares.
Human memory is a marvellous but fallacious instrument.
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate, one less reason to live.
I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.
We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last – the power to refuse our consent.
It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about the world, but the fact that it is considered normal.
