Evil Quote by Primo Levi

““For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity’s progress toward justice and peace.””

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I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

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An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

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“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that…

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Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the…

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