Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.