Eugen Kogon quotes

“Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.”
-- Eugen Kogon

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“Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.”
-- Eugen Kogon

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“One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.”
-- Eugen Kogon

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“The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.”

“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”

“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.”

“I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.”

“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”

“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

“I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.”

“From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.”

“In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

“We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today,”

Source : "Space probe sees Xanadu on Saturn moon" by Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2004.