Richard von Weizsaecker Quotes

• Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Lying, Remembrance, Secret

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.60, Routledge

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• Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

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  Doe, Tasks, Generations

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• Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Freedom, Way Forward, Democracy

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• There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

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  War, Responsibility, Holocaust

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• Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Uprising, Risk, Remember

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.282, Routledge

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• All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Past, Gmos, Guilty

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.59, Routledge

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• We could be happy if the air was as pure as beer.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Beer, Air, Pure

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