After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The spirit of counsel enables a person to look for something new and to search further anddeeper.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

I'll never retire from working; I'll keep my life interesting until I drop dead.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.