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

— Sholem Asch The Apostle (1943)

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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 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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