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.
Tadeusz BorowskiBetween two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.
Tadeusz BorowskiThere 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.
Tadeusz BorowskiI risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.
Tadeusz BorowskiWhy is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.
Tadeusz Borowski