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Sholem Asch Quotes

1880–1957 Poland

Sholem Asch (1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

The Apostle (1943)

The masses have learned the great lesson of what happens to an ideal when traitors abandon it to the enemy. German Social Democracy, Noske and Hitler, will forever stand before the eyes of the people like black shadows to teach them in whose hands to entrust power.

Woe to the Misleaders! (1944)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sholem Asch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.