Philippe Brévard

“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.”
― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”
― Thucydides

“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.”
― Vivien Spitz, 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.”
― Vivien Spitz, Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans