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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp. -- Larry Hovis
If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question. -- Stephenie Meyer
I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time. -- Kylie Minogue
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young. -- George Takei
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. -- John Boyd Orr
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. -- Jack Kevorkian
But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp. -- Black Kettle
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. -- Walter Scott
Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. -- Susan Sontag
The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps. -- Patrick Macnee
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill. -- Charlie Sheen
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing. -- Jami Gertz
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. -- Bob Matsui
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer! -- Natalie Portman
There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps -- Paul Newman
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. -- Alexander Dubcek
We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks. -- Shia LaBeouf
I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day. -- Chael Sonnen
All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention. -- Michael Strahan
We have absolute support from all our masses inside our occupied territories and even outside our occupied territories. The "War of the Camps" [in Lebanon] is another picture of this strong support of our masses. -- Yasser Arafat
In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It's just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down." -- Sean Pertwee
In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It's just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down. -- Sean Pertwee
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. -- Henry David Thoreau
To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired. -- Sam Worthington
I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me. -- Lauren Bush
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless. -- Primo Levi
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. -- Milton Friedman
When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." -- Adolf Hitler
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25" -- Chris Ware
There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on." -- Martha Gellhorn
It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us." -- Albert Speer
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order." -- Albert Speer
I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships." -- Tara Brown
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that." -- Javier Bardem
The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. PSALM 34:7" -- Billy Graham
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam." -- Jean Marie Le Pen
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young." -- George Takei
Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen." -- Paul Quantrill
I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common." -- Ouida
Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out." -- Fannie Flagg
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon." -- Walid Jumblatt
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps." -- Steve Forbes
I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone." -- Rachelle Lefevre
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino." -- Lisa Bonet
You're scaring the dog," Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that inprisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization." -- Garth Stein
The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps." -- Patrick Macnee
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. -- Elie Wiesel
I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other. -- Linus Torvalds
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems." -- Alva Myrdal
They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic." -- Jens Bjørneboe
So you send other people into the camps, he thought, to get your husband out. It sounds like a typical police deal. It's probably the truth" -- Philip K. Dick
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people." -- George Takei
I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college." -- Derek Theler
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. -- Bob Matsui
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States. -- Eric Stoltz
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. -- George Takei
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day." -- Gene Simmons
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. -- Gene Simmons
Wagons to move the camp of a regiment from one place to another, and some of the camps had bakeries and cooking establishments that would have done credit to Delmonico." -- William T. Sherman
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps." -- Martha Gellhorn
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre." -- Aaron Tveit
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world." -- Boris Yeltsin
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis." -- Norman Finkelstein
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be. -- Vladimir Putin
In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army." -- Rob Walton
In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. -- Rob Walton
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial." -- Barbara Amiel
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon." -- Walter Russell Mead
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. -- John Prendergast
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward." -- Francis Parkman
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?" -- Rene Cassin
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends." -- James Laughlin
I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing." -- Rachel Boston
I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing. -- Rachel Boston
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war." -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the Nazi camps were run by ordinary bureaucrats: the evil was astonishing in its banality." -- Victoria Finlay
Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. -- Mark Hoppus
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach." -- Josh Gad
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure." -- Thrity Umrigar
In the concentration camps...we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions." -- Viktor E. Frankl
Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.' -- Christine Pelosi
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail." -- Jean Marie Le Pen
An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India, many great nations. different people living in the same place, an inversion of the notion of nation." -- Aporva Kala
Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show the champ. I'll pop a spiral With a twist, Do a three-sixty And scatter mist----" -- Kathryn Lasky
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia. -- Nathan Wolfe
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia." -- Nathan Wolfe
Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest." -- Gay Talese
I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important. -- Diane von Furstenberg
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps." -- Sherman Alexie
High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing." -- Blaine Harden
If you walk five blocks north from the wholefoods in Berkeley along Telegraph Avenue and then turn right at Dwight way, you'll soon come to a trash-strewn patch of grass and trees dotted with the tattered camps of a few homeless people." -- Michael Pollan
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice? -- Ismail Haniyeh
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?" -- Ismail Haniyeh
For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad." -- Anne Holm
Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us." -- Randall Jarrell
We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time. -- Anthony Davis
Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2." -- Andrew Stanton
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone." -- Jan Egeland
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. -- Martin Heidegger
There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere." -- Edward Ball
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds." -- Darell Hammond
A moral cynicism was sapping the strength of our society, half-lies were not only condoned, but regarded as smart. Many had remained untouched by the welter of the holocaust of battle fields, mass bombings, prison camps, the blood, pain, heartbreak and death remained to tally beyond their comprehension." Ghost of Bataan Speaks" -- Abie Abraham
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists. -- Richard Engel
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power. -- Sebastian Junger
We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. -- David Petraeus
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power." -- Sebastian Junger
Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view." -- Rachel Caine
There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps. -- Priyanka Chopra
I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me." -- Helen Garner
Daddy and mommy are in the kolkhoz The poor child cries as alone he goes There's no bread and there's no fat The party's ended all of that Seek not the gentle nor the mild A father's eaten his own child The party man he beats and stamps And sends us to Siberian camps38" -- Timothy Snyder
What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. -- Athol Fugard
The first of many autumn rains smelled smoky, like a doused campsite fire, as if the ground itself had been aflame during those hot summer months. It smelled like burnt piles of collected leaves, the cough of a newly revived chimney, roasted chestnuts, the scent of a man's hands after hours spent in a wood shop." -- Leslye Walton
Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2." -- Chris Cleave
A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!" -- Erich Maria Remarque

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