Chaim Herzog quotes

Chaim Herzog quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.”
-- Chaim Herzog

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“I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.”
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”
“Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.”
“I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago”
“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”
“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”

Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”
“The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.”
“You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.”
“Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.”

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