"nazis"タグの名言

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
タグ: voluntaryism, theft, taxation, superstition, statism, states, socialism, self-knowledge, self-esteem, religion, rationality, psychopath, politics, philosophy, patriotism, nazis, nations, nationalism, mafia, liberty, libertarian, knowledge, government, freedom, fascism, evil, democracy, delusion, countries, communism, collectivism, ancap, anarchy, anarcho-capitalism
Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.
タグ: world-war-ii, signs-and-symbols, nazis, holocaust, germans, fiction, death
The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a 'furniture facility.' It had then been vandalized and perhaps accidentally set aflame by incurious and callous local 'youths.' Only the well-crafted walls really stood, though a recent grant from the European Union had allowed a makeshift roof and some wooden scaffolding to hold up and enclose the shell until further notice. Adjacent were the remains of a mikvah bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts: I had to feel that it was grotesque that these obscurantist relics were the only ones to have survived. In a corner of the yard lay a pile of smashed stones on which appeared inscriptions in Hebrew and sometimes Yiddish. These were all that remained of the gravestones. There wasn't a Jew left in the town, and there hadn't been one, said Mr. Kichler, since 1945.
タグ: yiddish, wroclaw, world-war-ii, women-in-judaism, women-and-religion, white-stork-synagogue, vandalism, tombstones, synagogues, rituals, religion, relics, obscurantism, nazis, mikvahs, judaism, jews, jerzy-kichler, hebrew, european-union, desecration, communism, animals, animal-slaughter, animal-sacrifice, abattoirs, 1945
When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
タグ: willful-ignorance, responsibility, personal-responsibility, nazis, knowledge, hitler, guilt, genocide, evil, deportation, denunciation, cowardice, civilization, blame