But there were excellent physicians, well-informed chemists, and great surgeons—all racist. How could they seek truth and happiness for human beings at the same time that they hated some of them solely because they belonged to human
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“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Charles George Gordon
― Charles George Gordon
“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”
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“It serves a demagogue well to set up a scapegoat or a public enemy to unite the populace behind him and by so doing, enable them to overlook incursions on human rights through fear and ignorance. It serves him well to designate a group as other and, for that reason, treat them as inferior, subhuman, and ineligible for the protection of the laws of civilized society.”
― Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
― Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.”
― Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
― Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
“You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
― History of the Peloponnesian War
― History of the Peloponnesian War
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