Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

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.

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

I am the seeker of love, I am the giver of love, and I became the love.

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra, ” August said. “You shouldn’t have done this to me.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.