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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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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."
Survival

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

"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

"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

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

"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
Man

"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

"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

"God must have been on leave during the Holocaust."
God

"Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations."
Humanity
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