One death is a tragedy, and one million deaths are statistics.

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History is written by the victor, the judge. Germany's evil against Judea, Japan's evil against China, and Italy's evil against its own people may be judged. What about the evil of the United States towards Vietnam? What is the evil of the Soviet Union against Poland? No one can be tried. What is even more impossible to judge is the slaughter of corpses that have been entangled for thousands of years in the Han Dynasty. The same situation has occurred in Southeast Asia, South and North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East to the whole world, and the entire history of mankind. Who would prosecute the Neanderthals?

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  • Mrs. Bertholt: When I was a child, we used to go for long rides into the country in summertime. But I was never allowed to run to the lemonade stand with the others. I was told, "Control your thirst. Control hunger. Control emotion." It has served me well.

  • Judge Dan Haywood: Things haven't been very easy for you, have they?

    Mrs. Bertholt: I'm not used to them being easy. I'm not fragile, Judge Haywood.