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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."
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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."
"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty."
"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."
"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."
"For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people."
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