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"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."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."
"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."
"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."
"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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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."
"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."
"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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