Top 7 Victor Klemperer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.”

— Victor Klemperer

2. “That is the fantastic thing about the National Socialists, that they simultaneously share in a community of ideas with Soviet Russia and with Zion.”

— Victor Klemperer

3. “The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.”

— Victor Klemperer

4. “I changed Lessing’s35 words – Anyone who does not lose his reason over certain things, has no reason – into: Anyone whose heart remains calm today, has no heart.”

— Victor Klemperer

5. “Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don’t succeed.”

— Victor Klemperer

6. “In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.”

— Victor Klemperer

7. “Always the same seesaw. The fear that my scribbling could get me put into a concentration camp. The feeling that it is my duty to write, that it is my life’s task, my calling. The feeling of vanitas vanitatum, that my scribbling is worthless. In the end I go on writing anyway, the diary, the Curriculum.”

— Victor Klemperer

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