To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.

We have ourselves to save.