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“He should have added the old truism that in war millions of young men butcher millions of other young men who have done them no harm and whom they have never met—all on behalf of a few old men who know one another only too well. *”
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
“Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet--and this is its horror!--it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it find nothing there. That is the banality of evil.”
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“true home, we now know, was not “Germany”
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
“Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.”
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
“The patience of the oppressed has always been the most inexplicable, as well as probably the most important, fact in all of history.”
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933
