For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.

You fool, Helene. When you love, there is always more pain.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.