Karen

“perverse?” “I think the Nazis are simply human, too human in the worst sense of the word. Your people were scared and had an inferiority complex; you didn’t know where to turn, and somebody rose up and told you what to do. By the time you thought about it, he had absolute control of your lives. Fear is the most dangerous weapon in the”
― Mario Escobar, The Teacher of Warsaw

“Sometimes I wonder, Janusz: What makes one man choose the light and another choose the dark?” I often wondered the same. “Conscience, perhaps? That inner voice that tells a man what’s good and what’s bad?”
― Mario Escobar, The Teacher of Warsaw

“My dear doctor, evil is not from the outside; it nests deep in our hearts. The sooner we learn that truth, the easier it will be to put an end to it. Each of us has to be transformed into something better so the world can become a place worth living in.” “It certainly seems that good keeps quiet while evil is what makes history march along. But I am confident, Father, that in the end good will triumph.” The priest wrapped me in his arms. There we were, an old Jew and an old Catholic, embracing”
― Mario Escobar, The Teacher of Warsaw

“can tell you one thing: conscience can be manipulated. At one time, as you well know, I was anti-Semitic. I told myself that the Jews did not deserve my compassion. God put me in this ghetto to mend my ways and show me how to pay for my faults.”
― Mario Escobar, The Teacher of Warsaw