Dachau quotes

Dachau

8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

8 quotes
Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses."

Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter

"The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now."

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