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"What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines."
History
"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
Adversity
"After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields."
Success
"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism."
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"There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic."
Reason
"I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins."
People
"The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims."
War
"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
Madness
"When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism."
Road
"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."
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