Yehuda Bauer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.
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I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
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The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
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And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.
-- Yehuda Bauer
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
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Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
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The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question
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If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.
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We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.
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