Preventing The Holocaust Quotes & Sayings

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking. — Byron Katie

I got the idea for 'Throne of Glass' when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the 'Cinderella' soundtrack, I thought, 'What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn't mind kicking butt?' — Sarah J. Maas

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older. — Sarah Brightman

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers. — Alex Gibney

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. — John Badham

We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth. — Joan D. Chittister

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all. — Haruki Murakami

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening. — Peter Benchley

What I do know, is that I refused to compromise with the system and I was obsessed with preventing my work from being manipulated for their propaganda. Even stories about the Holocaust could have been promoted as anti-fascist stories, which they were in a way, but I didn't want them to be taken only as such. I remember I had a reading in Berlin in the '80s and a man in the audience, asked me: 'Sir, I read your book, I read the stories, you didn't say who the oppressors were nor who are the people who are suffering.' And I said, 'No, I didn't.' It was important to me that a Vietnamese reader reading a story about a young boy who is in a camp, can recognize himself, without me saying: the boy is a Jew, the oppressor is a Romanian, or a Nazi, and so on. I wanted to have a more universal approach. — Norman Manea

Text me when you want to see me again, he signed. I'm giving you your space, but know this: I will wait forever for you. — J.R. Ward

One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them. — Ali Sina

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty. — Alfred North Whitehead

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl. — Sandra Bullock

My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that. — Gio Gonzalez

The evolution of the brain is directly proportionate to the evolution of humanity. Only when the brain has collected enough data about war, will it move on to collate information about love. — Craig Stone