Heda Kovaly Quotes & Sayings

When every action and thought is geared to the building of a new society, there is little room left for feelings. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid ... — Heda Margolius Kovaly

A democracy, mistakes can eventually be rectified and people who perpetrate stupidity or even atrocities are regarded, with the passage of time, more with tolerance and pity than with hate. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Love and hope are infinitely more powerful than hate and fury. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called a clearly-defined world view. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, .. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

If everyone were a hero, what would courage be worth? — Heda Margolius Kovaly