For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Every man is a hypocrite

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.