One can forgive many Germans, but there are some Germans it is difficult to forgive. It is difficult to forgive Heidegger.
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Emmanuel Lévinas, Heidegger's pre-WWII colleague at University of Freiburg, Nine Talmudic Readings, trans. Annette Aronowicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. p. 25Martin Heidegger
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"For Christians, the rules are clear. They are under order to forgive. We must follow those orders, no matter how difficult they appear. If we do not forgive, God will not forgive us. That is the beginning and the end of it."
Laisenia Qarase
The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.
Zvi Rex
As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, “Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!”
There was no answer. There had never been an answer.Ursula K. Le Guin
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them? Who's God trying to impress? Presumably himself, since he is judge and jury, as well as execution victim. (Part 2, 00:29:56)
Richard Dawkins
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
William Somerset Maugham
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