42 Quotes by Martin Niemöller

A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question as I revealed before the court but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.

If it hurts, DON’T DO IT AGAIN.

Don’t let your life wait for other people.

A man doesn’t realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

There was no one left to speak for me.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God’s enemies.

If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don’t. Your intuition is not stupid.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist.