Jacky Rosen Quotes

We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I am sorry that as leader of the community, San Antonio and my name go together. But I guess human beings just aren't made of plastic and wiring and metal. They are made of flesh and blood and feelings.

Redemption should be part of politics, because it’s part of the human pageant.

I think one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray. That is always my feeling. Yet it is always right to show that one does not like to see what is obviously wrong; but it is very dangerous to be too severe, and I am certain that as a rule such people always greatly regret that in their youth they have not been as careful as they ought to have been.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.