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bystanders fiction said
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. Edna O'Brien
bystanders toxic emotion
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. Daniel Goleman
bystanders holocaust remembrance
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
bystanders holocaust remembrance
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. Elie Wiesel
bystanders silence holocaust
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Elie Wiesel
bystanders friendly levels
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement. Alice Sebold
bystanders killing innocent
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders. Curtis LeMay
bystanders realizing destruction
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. Curtis Sittenfeld
bystanders civilization soldier
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders. Jack McDevitt
holocaust historical survivor
The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time. Chris Abani
holocaust trying gold
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. Benazir Bhutto
holocaust way jokes
Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny. Alan King
holocaust different littles
Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted." "This person was sent to this concentration camp." "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business." Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere. Bob Balaban
holocaust tragedy answers
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. Elie Wiesel
holocaust victim jew
It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims Elie Wiesel
holocaust world events
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance. Elie Wiesel
holocaust forget
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice Elie Wiesel
holocaust would-be forget
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Elie Wiesel
remembrance remember macbeth-play
I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me. William Shakespeare
remembrance sorrow bitter
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief. Benjamin Disraeli
remembrance lightning and-love
and love was lightning and remembrance Charles Bukowski
remembrance paradise driven
Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Charles Francis Richter
remembrance hamlet-and-ophelia rosemary
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. William Shakespeare
remembrance deceit world
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit. Bill Vaughan
remembrance stories speak
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. Czeslaw Milosz
remembrance suffering sorrow
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. Dante Alighieri
remembrance quality ears
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. Gian Carlo Menotti