“Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.” MindMayWarActionActingResponsibilityFailingPolicyMassSolutionsEvidenceMurderAimFinalsJewAtmosphereGermanyRemoveGenocideNaziPsychicsDistortionFrenzyExterminationAnti SemiticEmigrationWaging War Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.” WellsImportantBookFactsLightSufferingLossTerribleEvidenceUniversalHistoricalFinalsJewOrganizedStatisticsSurvivorAlliesHolocaustDocumentsTestimonyGrimAmnesia Author:Hilma Wolitzer
“...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself and the argument that gives it Order, that we need to share with one another, and not just the unsupported final Claim.” NeedsGivingMayWantedOrderOpportunityShareEvidenceArgumentClaimsFinalsGenuine Author:Philip Morrison
“The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.” SometimesLightCareMoralPerspectiveGloryEvidenceAspectCleanWestFinalsLandscapeUnexpectedDepressingAssuranceMisused Author:Robert Adams
“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.” IfsWorldGivingDoeFacesJoyGriefExistencePossibilityWallSorrowEvidenceUniversalFinalsDefeatDenyTalesFairyFairy TaleGlimpseFleetingDeliverancePoignant Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” AmericaFormWaitingClearGunEvidenceThreatFinalsCloudsIraqProofSmokingGatheringPerilMushroomsFunny Bush Author:George W. Bush
“If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.” IfsSeemsScienceHistoryCenturyTheoryEvidenceFinalsGuidesExplanationArrowsConvergenceNorth Pole Author:Steven Weinberg
“[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.” MindEyeJesusSpeakWorstProduceEvidenceFinalsSakeAcceptedHis EyesJustifiedSanctificationDepravityVerdict Author:J. I. Packer
“But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text.” HumansEnergyEnvironmentInfluenceChangedKeysEvidenceScientistClimateFinalsClimate ChangeAcceptedSettingSettingsReportsChaptersSectionsExaminingScientific Evidence Author:Frederick Seitz
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.” HeartEyeAbleUnderstandingAnswersPartyEssentialsIntellectualEvidenceArgumentEarsFinalsDebateEnormousCommandEaseSubtleRejects Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984