Charles Patterson Quotations

When it was obvious that nobody was interested in a book about the 'Nazi' way we treat animals,

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Dr. Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on Jews and Gypsies at Auschwitz (he had two doctorates, by the way) would have fit in quite nicely at Columbia, ... To paraphrase Theodor Adorno, the German Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, 'Auschwitz begins wherever somebody looks at a Columbia lab and thinks: they're only animals.'

The thing about Judge Duncan, he presided with such ... control, he was a calming influence. His presence and the way he would address people was calming, reassuring and conciliatory.