14 Quotes by Tadeusz Borowski

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

I risked my life to save lives. I’m not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another – through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.

We said that there is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them first out of duty, then from habit, and finally -for pleasure.