Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.