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"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition."
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"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."

"History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!"

"If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!"

"Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!"

"History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!"

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."
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"When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity."


"There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters."


"Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived."


"We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?"


"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."


"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."


"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it."


"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
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