I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

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.

If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?

A soldier is a killer painted hero.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.

'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.