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For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician — not even a church politician.

— Martin Niemöller

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Our people are trying to break the bond set by God. That is human conceit rising against God.

One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.

Then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

I began my political responsibility as an ultra-conservative. I wanted the Kaiser to come back; and now I am a revolutionary. I really mean that. If I live to be a hundred I shall maybe be an anarchist, for an anarchist wants to do without all government.

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