Jaillir Femme Quotes & Sayings

In fact, this figure [five million "murdered" Gentiles] is too high if one is counting victims who were targeted exclusively for racial reasons, but too low if one counts the total number of victims the Nazi regime killed outside military operations.
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Wiesenthal's aggrandizement of his role in the Eichmann capture is far less disturbing and historiographically significant than another of his inventions. In an attempt to elicit non-Jewish interest in the Holocaust, Wiesenthal decided to broaden the population of victims - even though it meant falsifying history. He began to speak of eleven million victims: six million Jews and five million non-Jews. Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer immediately recognized that this number made no historical sense. Who, Bauer wondered, constituted Wiesenthal's five million.

--The Eichmann Trial, page 8 — Deborah E. Lipstadt

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. — Jon Favreau

A man's only as good as his word. — Rodd Thunderheart

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. — Arthur Conan Doyle

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years. — Martin Cruz Smith

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor. — Sherwood Anderson

Time is given us to use in view of eternity. — Henry Allen Ironside

We met every morning, still bearded with toast crumbs from our continental breakfasts. — Karen Russell

Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues. — Edward Abbey

Blood, Herr Reiss, can never be eradicated like ink. — Philip K. Dick

Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up. — Erich Fromm

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame. — Tupac Shakur

I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but they're flawed in ways that don't come across as faults. And while I'm on the subject, Tolstoy's characters' faults are so epic and out of scale, they're as static as backdrops. — Haruki Murakami

Your attitude should not settle for the average when you have what it takes to become the best. You excel by choice and you must be focused like a laser beam. Even the sun, powerful as it is, will not be able to burn a hole into a piece of paper until a magnifying glass is used to channel the power of its rays onto one spot. Focus your intellect and your knowledge to get excellent results. — Archibald Marwizi

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream. — Isaac Asimov