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"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
"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."
"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
"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."
"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."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
"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."
"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."
"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come."
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