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Primo Levi — Portrait after a picture by Mondadori Publishers (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Primo Levi

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer

1919–1987

6 quotes, most often on History.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
Interview with Daniel Toaff, Sorgenti di Vita (25 March 1983); translated by Mirto Stone
- History
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous; more dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Appendix (1976) to If This Is a Man, as translated in The New Republic
- Good & Evil
Death begins with the shoes; for most of us, they show themselves to be instruments of torture, which after a few hours of marching cause painful sores which become fatally infected.
If This Is a Man (1947)
- Life & Death
In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: “to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.”
If This Is a Man (1947)
- History
- Justice
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
If This Is a Man (1947)
- Laws
- Power
In countries and epochs in which communication is impeded, soon all other liberties wither; discussion dies by inanition, ignorance of the opinion of others becomes rampant, imposed opinions triumph.
The Drowned and the Saved (1986)
- Debate
- Liberty

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