PRIMO LEVI QUOTES

“I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.”

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

“It is necessary to resist being crushed by it all. The only way to do that is to be human.”

“I cannot understand those who prefer desolation and death to peace and life.”

“It’s not a merit to survive the gas chambers; it’s not a demerit to die there.”

“We must bear witness. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

“Even the most fortunate have their share of suffering.”

“The worst always happen.”

“One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live.” “I felt the need to tell what I saw… I felt morally called upon to give testimony.”

“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.”

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

“Our human qualities—strength, kindness, determination, humor—are the only things that can give us some refuge amid the biting cold of the camps.” WOMENS DAY QUOTES IN HINDI

“Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

“Violence can kill the soul, but hospitable language and respect for dignity can revive it.”

“Hatred only eats away at a person’s intelligence and conscience, and an enemy mentality can poison the spirit of an entire people.”

“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.”

“Metaphysical guilt is absolute; it is impossible to elude.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

“We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experiences, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say.”

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this— who will count the votes, and how.”

“I don’t want to be considered wise, it’s just that I don’t know everything.”

“There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.”

“Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”