Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day- but by the minute.
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