Tadeusz Borowski Quotes

• There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Silence, Moral, Injustice

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• ¿Por qué nadie grita, nadie les escupe a la cara, nadie les salta al cuello? Nos quitamos la gorra ante los hombres de las SS que vuelven del bosquecillo; si gritan nuestro nombre, obedientemente vamos con ellos a morir, y no hacemos nada. Morimos de hambre, nos empapa la lluvia, nos separa de nuestras familias. ¿Qué es este misterio? ¿Este extraño poder de un hombre sobre otro? ¿Esta insana pasividad que no puede ser vencida? Nuestra única fuerza es nuestro gran número; las cámaras de gas no pueden albergarnos a todos.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Lluvia, Hombres, Nombres

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• El hambre real es cuando un hombre considera a otro como algo para comer.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Real, Men, Hunger

  Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  People, Want, Glory

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• It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Law, People, Charity

  Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless, because money cannot be obtained through work, but through exploitation of others. And if we cannot exploit as much as we wish, at least let us work as little as we can. Moral duty? We believe neither in the morality of man nor in the morality of systems. [p. 168]

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Believe, Men, Justice

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• I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Thinking, Important, Earth

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Mundo

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• Un hombre sólo tiene un número limitado de formas de expresar emociones fuertes o pasiones violentas. Utiliza los mismos gestos que cuando lo que siente es insignificante y sin importancia. Pronuncia las mismas palabras ordinarias.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Fuerte, Pasión, Hombres

  Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• What a curious power words have.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Curioso

  Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Book, Thinking, Light

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• Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Soccer, Games, Two

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves -- that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night -- so the rope, paper, knife.

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  Love, Laughter, Home

  Tadeusz Borowski, Larry Rafferty (1990). “Selected poems”

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