Jaime Malamud Quotes

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

Consider my Situation: I was a forty nine year old man facing life in prison for encouraging people to face up to new options with courage and intelligence. The American government was being run by Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Robert Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, J. Edgar Hoover and other cynical flouters of the democratic process

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

The state should look into this, as other nations do: see to it that nobles do not take the lives of their subjects at will, or burden them with unjust toil - as if they were dumb cattle!

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

In the transition epoch, surely crimes will come. Did the seed of tyranny ever bear good fruit? And can you expect Liberty to undo in a moment what Oppression has been doing for ages?

The Nazi Party should be banned and its leaders tried and imprisoned. Should the jails prove already full, the Nazis could be temporarily housed in their own … concentration camps…. Rid the bureaucracy of all authoritarian influences.

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Institutions can eventually overcome all the legal barriers erected to shield perpetrators of crimes against humanity Justice was finally done where it needed to be done – in Argentina itself.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

Reconciliation does not mean covering history with a blanket. Reconciliation means truth, justice and love. Justice without love can degenerate into vengeance. We need to know the truth for medicinal reasons, so that what happened … will never happen again.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

This whole country is a graveyard, and we are all constantly walking on the bones

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.