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The crucial political argument of our time will not be carried on in books, it will be lived.

Та вогонь. Тупо речення за реченням. Нема як/не встигаєш вирізати цитати

«By tired feet and leaking shoes, and by the watering of mouths over missed meals, these women had learned with their whole being that justice gives a better climate than hate. Aching, they saw a vision of a state that should think each citizen so precious that it would give him full liberty to be himself, provided only that he did not infringe the liberties of others to be themselves»

But we fight for our rights, we will not let anybody take our breath away from us, and we resist all attempts to prevent us from using our wills. It is our duty to fight as eagerly for the rights of others, to admit the unique and sacred character of their souls and their wills, and here in Germany that duty was often faithfully observed.

Few of us take joy in ourselves. Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

But they had surely mistaken a difficult injunction for an easy one. Christ did not tell us to love our «neighbours as we love our lovers or our kin, which is not a hard task for people with a certain vacancy of nature; every woman tried for murder receives a number of proposals from total strangers. He did tell us to love our neighbours as ourselves, and that is a cool and intellectual love.

Everybody and everything was wrong, it seemed, except murderers and the idea of murder.

The symbol of Nuremberg was a yawn

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