"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty."

-- Simon Wiesenthal

#Taken Quotes #Nazi Quotes #Duty Quotes

“The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2000). “The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction, 1959-1991”, Vintage
“I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.”

Source : "A conversation with St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.”
“They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!”

Source : "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.
“No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.”
“I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.”
“Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.”
“As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.”

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