Richard von Weizsaecker Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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