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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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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."

"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."

"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."

"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."

"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."

"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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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."


"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."


"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 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."


"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."


"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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