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"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."

"Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil."

"If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress."

"Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it."

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🇩🇪Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religion

1906–1945

"Bonhoeffer Bibliography by Joel Lawrence"

"If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it."

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🇩🇪Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

Politics

1878–1943

"I am ashamed to have belonged in an army, that witnessed and tolerated all these crimes."

"I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone."

"There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army. The main function of the Black."

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🇩🇪Michael von Faulhaber

Politics

1869–1952

"Notwithstanding all the guidance of divine grace Israel did not know the time of her visitation. The great majority of the people rejected the Messiah with the cry: 'His blood be upon us and upon our children' ."

"Jungs! Opfert euch nicht! Der krieg ist doch scheiße, Hitler ist ein idiot! Translation: Boy! Do not sacrifice yourself! The war is but shit, Hitler is an idiot!"

"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me."

"The old type of capitalist who adheres to the traditional concepts of property rights is doomed to failure under fascism."

"Those Chetniks up there who are now firing on us will have joined us within a year."

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🇩🇪Henning von Tresckow

Military

1901–1944

"I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime."

"I myself am just an ordinary woman. I had a lot of choices"

"The game which I was now playing in Auschwitz was dangerous. This sentence does not really convey the reality; in fact, I had gone far beyond what people in the real world consider dangerous."

"Hate is not a creative force. Love is a creative force."

"Love is larger than the walls which shut it in."

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🇬🇷Theodoros Kolokotronis

Politics

1770–1843

"Greeks! today we are born and today we shall die for the salvation of our Homeland."

"There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there, too. But more often stones and grit block the well, and God is buried beneath. Then He must be dug out again."

"As the officer before the World War was naturally a monarchist...so it is naturally understandable today...to be a National Socialist...The Wehrmacht has become the tool of the National Socialist will for development."

"What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?"

"For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it."

"The oppression is growing, and anyone who has had to submit to the Tempter's machine-gun fire during this last week thinks differently from what he did even three weeks ago."

"Now every day, every hour, everywhere there is mat'rial for meeting demonstrations!"

"We had absolute consciousness that it was a historic moment... No struggle for what you believe in is ever futile."

"And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciuszko fell!"

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