Margolius Margolius 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

I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. — Samantha Jones

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

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.' — Nancy Pelosi

Following a religion will bring us to the values at the center of that religion - values that can bring us closer to our better selves, or further away. Yet, if we wish to find the divine, each of us must make our own path to it. Following, not the blazed path of doctrine, but choosing instead to venture through the wilderness of the unknown guided by the signs we perceived while in that heady altered state that is belief. — L.M. Browning

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

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. — Charles Spurgeon

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known. — Kristin Hannah