Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

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.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight.

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.