{"quotes":[{"text":"I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.","author":"Amber Garibay","tags":["feelings-of-weakness","guilt","holocaust","karma","meat","responsible","toxic","tuesday","wrong"],"id":512,"author_id":"Amber+Garibay"},{"text":"We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.","author":"Elie Wiesel","tags":["elie","holocaust","night","wiesel"],"id":732,"author_id":"Elie+Wiesel"},{"text":"Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.","author":"Tadeusz Pankiewicz","tags":["history","holocaust","memoir","truth"],"id":1476,"author_id":"Tadeusz+Pankiewicz"},{"text":"My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.","author":"Elie Wiesel","tags":["death","genocide","germany","history","hitler","holocaust","jews"],"id":2109,"author_id":"Elie+Wiesel"},{"text":"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.","author":"Anne Frank","tags":["holocaust","inspirational","judaism"],"id":5044,"author_id":"Anne+Frank"},{"text":"We can no longer believe that after death, if we have sinned, we shall enter hell. Hell has been acted out here on Earth in the time of Nazi Germany, when even the innocent went in their millions to a hell that beggars the imagination. A profound change in attitude has come about as a result.","author":"Brian W. Aldiss","tags":["belief","hell","holocaust"],"id":6827,"author_id":"Brian+W.+Aldiss"},{"text":"...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["death","friendship","holocaust","inspirational","life","love","tear-jerker","wwii-fiction"],"id":7176,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2004-indian-ocean-earthquake","acts-of-god","atheism","deluge-myth","god","holocaust","noah","ontology","pathetic-fallacy","problem-of-evil","religion","theodicy"],"id":8527,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?","author":"Anne Frank","tags":["art","childhood","history","holocaust","innocence","inspirational","life","living-life","world-war-2","world-war-ii","writing"],"id":11224,"author_id":"Anne+Frank"},{"text":"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["eugenics","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-survivors","immigration","jewish","jews","nazi","nazism","racism","roosevelt","scientific-racism","survivors","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":19289,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":154,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}