We will die, but art will remain.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.