Miep Gies famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.
-- Miep Gies

#Teenager #Dark #Light
You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.
-- Miep Gies

#Hero #Everyday
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
-- Miep Gies

#Opinion #Losing #Failing
I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
-- Miep Gies

#Thinking #Holocaust #Bosnia
Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
-- Miep Gies

#Children #Use #Internet
Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.
-- Miep Gies

#People #Looks #Trouble
I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
-- Miep Gies

#Hero #Done #Decent
I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
-- Miep Gies

#Special #Attention #Wanted
Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard,
-- Miep Gies

#Real #Able
People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.
-- Miep Gies

#Thinking #People #Special
I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.
-- Miep Gies

#Growing Up #Hero #Helping Others
We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.
-- Miep Gies

#People #Needs #Helping
I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.
-- Miep Gies

#Choices #Ordinary

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