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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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Personal Development

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
Man


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


"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."
Conscience


"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."
Leadership


"Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought."
Service


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


"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."
People


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


"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."
Home


"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?"
People
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