"There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God."

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Source : "Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life by Berel Lang - review" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2014.

Primo Levi

#Atheist Quotes #Auschwitz Quotes

“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”
“There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if the world is getting Westernized all over, guilt will enter through the technology and democracy and their actions. It will come side by side so there won't be anymore innocent societies in the future I think which in fact is not such a bad thing.”

Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org
“I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.”
“Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.”
“I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.”
“I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.”
“Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.”

Source : Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”
“Donâ€™t worry," I said. "These men are good. Theyâ€™re going to heal the world.”

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