3 Quotes by Gwethalyn Graham

If you choose to turn your back, you don’t really have a say in what goes on behind it.

You can’t offer a series of vague generalizations referring to the supposed characteristics of approximately sixteen million people scattered over the earth’s surface – that was the pre-war figure, of course – as a valid explanation of your attitude toward a given individual. It doesn’t make sense.

What he was saying was of no importance in itself, it had all been said before so many times, repeated parrot-like but with an air of acute perception and originality by one person after another, in one country after another, all the way down through history. After all, even Hitler was unable to think up anything really new on the subject of the Jews; he merely said what everybody else had been saying, only of course he said it louder and oftener, and put it a bit more strongly.