Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.