14 Quotes by Tadeusz Borowski

What a curious power words have.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

But I think we should speak about all the things that are happening around us. We are not evoking evil irresponsibly or in vain, for we have now become a part of it...

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

We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

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

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.