Hilsenrath Quotes & Sayings

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity. — Henry Ward Beecher

Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process. — Edgar Hilsenrath

It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw. — Vannevar Bush

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. — Tommy Chong

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. — Oscar Wilde

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. — Beatrix Potter

A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested. — Stacy Keibler

The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different. — Edgar Hilsenrath

Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums. — Lauren Oliver

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else. — Edgar Hilsenrath

I felt guilty because I survived. — Edgar Hilsenrath

I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam. — Edgar Hilsenrath

In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them. — Edgar Hilsenrath

The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust. — Edgar Hilsenrath

I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if I tried with all my might. But in reality ... I never did get to defeat him. No. I couldn't beat him. — Kim Young-kwang