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"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."

"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."

"As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience."

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

"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."

"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."

"I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience."
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"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."


"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."


"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."


"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."


"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come."


"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."


"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."


"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
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