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Quotes About Camps

San Francisco Chronicle went the other way for three days, editorializing: "It is not necessary to imitate Hitler by herding whole populations, the guilty and the innocent together into even humane concentration camps.
~ Richard Reeves
The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special relationship with the fans.
~ Walt Frazier
The category of crimes against humanity was used in the 1945 Nuremberg Charter to ensure that the deportation of Germans by Germans to the concentration camps, and their subsequent mistreatment and extermination, could be prosecuted. Under the international laws of war at that time, the way in which a government treated its own nationals (no matter how heinous) was considered by international law as exclusively a matter of domestic jurisdiction, rather than an issue of international concern.
~ Andrew Clapham
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
When a final tally was made after the war, it would show that 27,927 Boers—almost all of them women and children—had died in the camps, more than twice the number of Boer soldiers killed in combat.)
~ Adam Hochschild
I've done this a couple times, been to a couple different camps and a couple different AAU practices to talk to kids. I tell them you have to be dedicated, have to decide if you want to be a serious basketball player or not. They always ask, 'What if you get discouraged?' You have to remember what your goal was in the first place.
~ Jahlil Okafor
For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could be the lower price. Could be the mellow character, which lends itself to long hours of fireside sipping. Or it could just be tradition.
~ Jonathan Miles
Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.
~ Charles Woodson
You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
~ Bob Cousy
Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
~ Calvin Johnson
There was a Yugoslav film about partisans that I've done the music for, and then I've promised to score a French film called 'Biribi' about detention camps at the turn of the century.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.
~ Fannie Flagg
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
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
Under Prime Minister Modi's leadership, terror camps are being destroyed, which is breaking the back of terrorists and Pakistan.
~ Yogi Adityanath
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
It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
~ Noreena Hertz
The problem with these UFC fighters - and they're all fantastic athletes, top of the line in the entire world - is that they wear their bodies down in these training camps. All these guys that are cutting weight are just destroying their own bodies.
~ Paul Heyman
I was the kid in basketball camps wanting to see the new gear that comes out or the gear that the camps give.
~ Deandre Ayton
Fue Himmler, y sólo él, quien durante el curso de la guerra fijó el carácter definitivo de los campos de concentración. Sólo él daba las órdenes al servicio de Seguridad, sólo él tenía el derecho a hacerlo.
~ Rudolf Höss
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
What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies and stuff, I'm just finding the next NBA player.
~ Steven Adams
in French camps the habit of quoting became "virtually epidemic." In part, this was a legacy of Prussian education, with its rote exercises. It was also an attempt to combat the murderers of German culture.
~ Anthony Heilbut