{ "type": "topic", "site": { "name": "Leafy Quotes", "language": "en", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com" }, "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.", "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust", "heading": "Quotes about Holocaust", "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust.json", "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust.md", "quotes_count": 20, "authors_count": 10, "parent": { "name": "war", "slug": "war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war", "heading": "Quotes about war" }, "children": [], "quotes": [ { "id": "e9eb5aa4-9420-4184-9d10-97e38ca416f2", "slug": "theres-a-little", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/theres-a-little", "text": "There's a little pond, in a small town in Poland, where they used to dump the ashes. The pond is still gray, even half a century later. I've heard it said that the holocaust had no survivors, that even those who managed to remain technically alive were so irreparably damaged, that their spirit, their soul, the person that they were supposed to be, was gone forever. I'd like to think that's not true. But if it is, then no one on Earth survived this war.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Max Brooks", "slug": "max-brooks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks" }, "book": { "title": "World War Z", "slug": "world-war-z", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World_War_Z#Part_VIII:_Good-Byes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:11" }, { "id": "3f091c06-1840-417f-8b09-b20e361800ed", "slug": "survivors-represent-a-separate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation/survivors-represent-a-separate", "text": "Survivors represent a separate species, just like an animal species. We are all survivors, that is what determines our perverse and degenerate mental world. Auschwitz.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Imre Kertész", "slug": "imre-kertesz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz" }, "book": { "title": "Liquidation", "slug": "liquidation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "survival", "slug": "survival", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz#Liquidation_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:30" }, { "id": "a2c84d6f-ed3d-490c-b5c0-78640e4a6f82", "slug": "the-central-principle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jared-diamond/upheaval/the-central-principle", "text": "The central principle of Fritz Bauer's career was that Germans should hold judgement upon themselves. That meant prosecuting ordinary Germans, not just the leaders whom the Allies had prosecuted. [...] The Nazi defendants being prosecuted by Bauer all tended to offer the same set of excuses [...]. Bauer's response, which he formulated again and again at the trials and in public, was as follows. Those Germans whom he was prosecuting were committing crimes against humanity. The laws of the Nazi state were illegitimate. One cannot defend one's actions by saying that one was obeying those laws. There is no law that can justify a crime against humanity. Everybody must have his own sense of right and wrong and must obey it, independently of what a state government says. Anyone who takes part in what Bauer called a murder machine [...] thereby becomes guilty of a crime.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jared Diamond", "slug": "jared-diamond", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jared-diamond" }, "book": { "title": "Upheaval", "slug": "upheaval", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jared-diamond/upheaval" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 226, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "law", "slug": "law", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law" }, { "name": "conscience", "slug": "conscience", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond#Upheaval:_How_Nations_Cope_with_Crisis_and_Change_(2019)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:07" }, { "id": "882c0fa0-8ace-46d7-9fe9-9a97bcd165df", "slug": "its-said-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacob-bronowski/the-ascent-of-man/its-said-that", "text": "It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods.Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible. In the end, the words were said by Oliver Cromwell: \"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ: Think it possible you may be mistaken.\"I owe it as a scientist to my friend Leo Szilard, I owe it as a human being to the many members of my family who died here, to stand here as a survivor and a witness. We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jacob Bronowski", "slug": "jacob-bronowski", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacob-bronowski" }, "book": { "title": "The Ascent Of Man", "slug": "the-ascent-of-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacob-bronowski/the-ascent-of-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "science", "slug": "science", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science" }, { "name": "humility", "slug": "humility", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humility" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski#The_Ascent_of_Man_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:50" }, { "id": "ed6569d8-3413-4e46-9ef3-3eaf61f3e9f7", "slug": "the-horror-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/less-than-nothing/the-horror-of-the", "text": "The horror of the Holocaust cannot be represented; but this excess of represented content over its aesthetic representation has to infect the aesthetic form itself. What cannot be described should be inscribed into the artistic form as its uncanny distortion.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Slavoj Žižek", "slug": "slavoj-zizek", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek" }, "book": { "title": "Less Than Nothing", "slug": "less-than-nothing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/less-than-nothing" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 25, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "art", "slug": "art", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek#Less_Than_Nothing_(2012)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:20" }, { "id": "f5314079-51b7-48ee-942c-bb3fcb788d61", "slug": "our-generation-is-realistic", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning/our-generation-is-realistic", "text": "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Viktor Frankl", "slug": "viktor-frankl", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl" }, "book": { "title": "Man's Search for Meaning", "slug": "mans-search-for-meaning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "human nature", "slug": "human-nature", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:57" }, { "id": "367626f3-1d72-4c09-8762-6ae36206e336", "slug": "you-may-of-course", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning/you-may-of-course", "text": "You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to \"saints.\" Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Viktor Frankl", "slug": "viktor-frankl", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl" }, "book": { "title": "Man's Search for Meaning", "slug": "mans-search-for-meaning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "kindness", "slug": "kindness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning#Postscript_1984_:_The_Case_for_a_Tragic_Optimism", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:57" }, { "id": "fb8cf86a-ce06-4110-990c-3bec81ccda7f", "slug": "the-most-profound", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron/sophies-choice/the-most-profound", "text": "The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query: “At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?” And the answer: “Where was man?”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Styron", "slug": "william-styron", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron" }, "book": { "title": "Sophie's Choice", "slug": "sophies-choice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron/sophies-choice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "religion", "slug": "religion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Styron#Sophie's_Choice_(1979)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:26" }, { "id": "14df4503-94c3-4e08-8ecb-d76cc86683f3", "slug": "someday-i-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron/sophies-choice/someday-i-will", "text": "Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Styron", "slug": "william-styron", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron" }, "book": { "title": "Sophie's Choice", "slug": "sophies-choice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-styron/sophies-choice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Styron#Sophie's_Choice_(1979)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:26" }, { "id": "fa170f9f-9367-48be-a230-a9cac0999820", "slug": "it-was-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi/the-drowned-and-the-saved/it-was-not", "text": "It was not possible for us nor did we want to become islands; the just (i giusti) among us, neither more nor less numerous than in any other human group, felt remorse, shame and pain for the misdeeds that others and not they had committed, and in which they felt involved, because they sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species — we, in short — had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Primo Levi", "slug": "primo-levi", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi" }, "book": { "title": "The Drowned And The Saved", "slug": "the-drowned-and-the-saved", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi/the-drowned-and-the-saved" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "guilt", "slug": "guilt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt" }, { "name": "indifference", "slug": "indifference", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Primo_Levi#The_Drowned_and_the_Saved_(1986)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:33" }, { "id": "eb8c0a94-4008-4353-8bf0-b275d55ff81b", "slug": "the-prisoners-who", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi/the-drowned-and-the-saved/the-prisoners-who", "text": "The prisoners who saved themselves were not the best, the predestined to good, the bearers of a message: what I had seen and experienced showed the exact opposite. Survived the worst of preference, the selfish, the violent, the insensitive, the collaborators of the 'gray area', the spies. It was not a certain rule (there were, nor are there in human affairs, certain rules), but was also a rule. I felt so innocent, but trooped among the saved, and therefore constantly looking for an excuse, before me and the others. Survived the worst, that is the most suitable; the best are all dead.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Primo Levi", "slug": "primo-levi", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi" }, "book": { "title": "The Drowned And The Saved", "slug": "the-drowned-and-the-saved", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi/the-drowned-and-the-saved" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "survival", "slug": "survival", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Primo_Levi#The_Drowned_and_the_Saved_(1986)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:33" }, { "id": "2afe98e6-8bd3-4dd4-b57d-be62971aeabf", "slug": "it-happened-therefore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi/the-drowned-and-the-saved/it-happened-therefore", "text": "It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Primo Levi", "slug": "primo-levi", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi" }, "book": { "title": "The Drowned And The Saved", "slug": "the-drowned-and-the-saved", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/primo-levi/the-drowned-and-the-saved" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Primo_Levi#The_Drowned_and_the_Saved_(1986)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:33" }, { "id": "d71dc6f7-4b1d-4605-86f6-72188a7d7f1b", "slug": "never-shall-i-forget", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/never-shall-i-forget", "text": "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elie Wiesel", "slug": "elie-wiesel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel" }, "book": { "title": "Night", "slug": "night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:20" }, { "id": "b6ad1b32-98e2-4697-b945-b2cc59fe626d", "slug": "the-world-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/the-world-the", "text": "\"The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elie Wiesel", "slug": "elie-wiesel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel" }, "book": { "title": "Night", "slug": "night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "indifference", "slug": "indifference", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:20" }, { "id": "9846ec5f-3303-4efc-9bdb-89e747e5a3fb", "slug": "for-gods-sake", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/for-gods-sake", "text": "\"For God's sake, where is God?\" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: \"Where He is? This is where hanging here from this gallows...\" That night, the soup tasted of corpses.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elie Wiesel", "slug": "elie-wiesel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel" }, "book": { "title": "Night", "slug": "night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:20" }, { "id": "5c65b2e6-314a-4528-998d-f494018b832b", "slug": "thousands-of-lips", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/thousands-of-lips", "text": "Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm. Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elie Wiesel", "slug": "elie-wiesel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel" }, "book": { "title": "Night", "slug": "night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:20" }, { "id": "5176c252-ab76-466a-a02c-afd272a81a89", "slug": "the-night-had", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/the-night-had", "text": "The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elie Wiesel", "slug": "elie-wiesel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel" }, "book": { "title": "Night", "slug": "night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:20" }, { "id": "3ff1021d-2a49-499e-b27e-41b36e253572", "slug": "to-forget-would", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/to-forget-would", "text": "To forget would not only be dangerous but offensive. to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elie Wiesel", "slug": "elie-wiesel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel" }, "book": { "title": "Night", "slug": "night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:20" }, { "id": "31d09667-c86f-498a-8844-ff26f83b4b00", "slug": "dont-be-deluded", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/dont-be-deluded", "text": "\"Don't be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.\" I exploded: \"What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?\" His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: \"I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elie Wiesel", "slug": "elie-wiesel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel" }, "book": { "title": "Night", "slug": "night", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel#Night_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:20" }, { "id": "f99ae8ec-05ca-4d44-a543-9ae53aae9951", "slug": "there-are-accounts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/there-are-accounts", "text": "There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. Look — here is a good man, good by his own lights and the lights of his friends: he is faithful and true to his wife, he adores and lavishes attention on his little children, he cares about his country, he does his job punctiliously, as best he can. So, efficiently and good-naturedly, he exterminates Jews: he appreciates the music that plays in the background to pacify them; he advises the Jews not to forget their identification numbers as they go into the showers — many people, he tells them, forget their numbers, and take the wrong clothes when they come out of the showers. This calms the Jews. There will be life, they assure themselves, after the showers. Our man supervises the detail taking the bodies to the ovens; and if there is anything he feels bad about, it is that he still allows the gassing of vermin to affect him. Were he a truly good man, he knows, he would feel nothing but joy as the earth is cleansed of its pests.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Neil Gaiman", "slug": "neil-gaiman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman" }, "book": { "title": "American Gods", "slug": "american-gods", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "evil", "slug": "evil", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil" }, { "name": "Holocaust", "slug": "holocaust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/holocaust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/American_Gods#Chapter_11", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:10" } ] }