Bruno Schulz Quotes

We make everyone get into his house by seven p.m., and we only tell a man once. If he refuses, we shoot him. We killed over 300 natives the first night. They tried to set the town on fire. If they fire a shot from the house we burn the house down and every house near it, and shoot the natives, so they are pretty quiet in town now.

My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces - the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.

We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the middle of the night - not every day, but sometimes. We hear about it, and we never knew what happened inside the prison camps. I learned about them after I escaped.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim, denounces it, and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

Government, as well as religion, has furnished its schisms, its persecutions, and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people. It has its hierarchy of emperors, kings, princes, and nobles, as that has of popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and priests. In short, cannibals are not to be found in the wilds of America only, but are reveling on the blood of every living people.

We have said very clearly that we will never put down our arms while there is occupation and if one Palestinian prisoner remains in an Israeli jail.

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

The Indians at length, thoroughly aroused by the cruelties of the Spaniards, by whom they were deprived of their liberty, forced to labor in the silver mines with inadequate food, and barbarously treated, finally rose, joined with tribes who had never been subdued, and gradually drove out or massacred their oppressors

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

What was new in the imperialism of Germany and Japan in World War II was the far more ruthless treatment of subject populations.