Awareness Quotes

"Play is really the work of childhood."

- Fred Rogers

"No amount of money ever bought a second of time."

- Tony Stark

"It’s an imperfect world, but it’s the only one we’ve got."

- Tony Stark

"You are the product of all who came before you, the legacy of your family. You are your mother, and whether you like it or not, you are also your father."

- Shang-Chi's aunt

"Curiouser and curiouser!"

- Alice

"Even when you had two eyes, you’d see only half the picture."

- Odin

"Through the steam, I saw a sign: ‘Auschwitz.’ I didn’t know what it was, but a minute later, I found out."

- Henry Meyer

"The Holocaust manifested the veneer of civilization so thin and fragile that repetition was possible."

- Sam Kaltman

"Supporting the Museum is a reminder to all of the dangers that prejudice, hatred and violence brought during the Holocaust."

- Rhona and Bruce Caress

"The lessons of the Holocaust are not Jewish, but universal. And unfortunately, the lessons remain relevant today."

- Sunni and Gary Markowitz

"When someone shows you their true colors, believe them."

- Dolly Parton

"To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

- Elie Wiesel

"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

- Elie Wiesel

"Get it all on record now—get the films, get the witnesses—because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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."

- Primo Levi

"We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, 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. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere."

- Primo Levi

"We demand that people don’t deny the Holocaust, and we can’t ignore the tragedy of another nation."

- Reuven Rivlin

"their eyes that remember. We are their voice that cries out. The dreadful scenes flow from their dead eyes to our open ones. And those scenes will be remembered exactly as they happened."

- Shimon Peres

"[F]or me, being a Jew means feeling the tragedy of yesterday as an inner oppression. On my left forearm, I bear the Auschwitz number; it reads more briefly than the Pentateuch or the Talmud and yet provides more thorough information. It is also more binding than basic formulas of Jewish existence. If to myself and the world, including the religious and nationally minded Jews, who do not regard me as one of their own, I say: I am a Jew, then I mean by that those realities and possibilities that are summed up in the Auschwitz number."

- Jean Amery

"I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur: think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia."

- Miep Gies

"Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas."

- Paula Poundstone

"Why play with kids when you can play on phones?"

- Bandit Heeler

"Water tastes like water."

- Taylor Spivey

"The French crowds are incredible. Obviously, they're very patriotic for the French. Not so much for me."

- Victor Koretzky

"Good soldiers know that if they don’t recognize who their enemy is, they are destined to lose the war. That is also true for those of us who battle in God’s army."

- Stormie Omartian

"Magic Claw has no children, his days are free and easy."

- Bandit

"The door. It is right here. All we need to do is walk out of it."

- Chilli

"Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset."

- Paul Krugman

"Maybe you just saw something you wanted"

"Sunsets are your proof that this Universe is pretty amazing."