The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.