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Simon Wiesenthal

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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!"

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"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!"

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Amber Hurdle

"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!"

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Amber Hurdle

"An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

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Amber Hurdle

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

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Amber Hurdle

"Even though the world hails Joan of Arc as some sort of hero, which she undoubtedly was, what pains me the most is that her pathological condition ultimately led to her demise at the age of only nineteen."

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"When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity."
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"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."
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"Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived."
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"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?"
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"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."
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"Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought."
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"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."
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"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."
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"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
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"What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands."
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