Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.