Richard von Weizscker Famous Quotes
"There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything."
"All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone."
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Richard von Weizscker Quotations
"That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent."
Aldous Huxley
"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything."
Laurence Sterne
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
Hellen Keller
"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle."
Matthew Arnold
"It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain."
German proverb
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Howard Mumford Jones
In wildness is the preservation of the world. - from Walking
Henry David Thoreau
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw